April+29

April 29, 2009

Today is my first day of traveling around and going out to see what people do. Today I am going to work with Rob at the [|Madison Middle School]. Rob is the Technology Director for [|Madison Central School District]. I didn't realize that working with computers meant you had to get up so early in the morning. We are on our way and it is about 6:15am.

Shortly after we get to work, we get busy with checking emails and looking at the calendar to see what we have planned for the day. There is an assembly later where some students from Mitchell Tech are coming. We have to get a projector and computer up and going for them.

As we headed to get the equipment up and going we were asked if we could meet about 9:30 about a survey that some students from 2003 want to put out. The survey has already been created we are just the technical experts on the project to see how we can send it out. One thought they have is through Facebook.

We got back to the office about 10:30 and students started coming it to have help with some projects. The door just kept opening and it was hard to focus on any projects. Before I knew it we were leaving for lunch.

When we got back from lunch, we worked on getting the room set up for a meeting at 2pm. There was going to be about 8 people in the room for the meeting.

The meeting ended around 3 and we were on the go again. We were on our way to [|DSU]for a retirement party for Tom Farrell. Tom was one of Rob's teachers when he was in college. We got to DSU right before the program began. They had really good chocolate cake and punch. The program had many people talk about Tom. But when Tom got up to talk he talked about his experience at DSU and even mentioned Rob. Has he talked about Rob, everyone looked at us.

I figured, okay the day must be about over, not when you are hanging out with Rob. We left DSU and drove to the [|Community Center], where we had to work until 10. The night was pretty slow but there is a lot of cleaning to do while you are there. Some kids were rude and tracked in lots of mud.

We finally got home around 10, and was I glad that we could go to bed.