Don't get me wrong based on the title here; I am moaning because I am SORE. Luckily the principal was in the building and not only let me choose my own room (YAY!) but also gave me my schedule for the year. I am not thrilled with the two levels of English, but I know they are between a rock and a hard place; he's still got teachers to hire and we start in-service on August 1! I told him he needed clones!
I am going to launch into a rather scary little adventure in one of my classes, though; I am going to be the newspaper advisor, and I told the principal I want to make it a digital newspaper; we might print out a few copies just to show what we're doing, but this is a high tech school, and I think it's long past time to go to an online newsletter rather than an expensive printed version that costs far more to print than we can possibly make on sales. The principal is 100% in favor of putting it online, too, so that part of the battle is already won! (Professor McGranahan, I would like your advice on software; I really don't see the students doing all the html coding). I figure a good software package and a decent digital camera and we will be in business.
Moving things into the school was just half of the fun, though. I had taken my old CRT monitor to school when I got a new home computer in 2005, because the monitor at school was small. My Dell Triniton 21 inch flat screen is one honkin' big monitor, (as you can see!) heavy as lead, but I just love the size of it, so I brought it home and rearranged my whole computer set up after moving all those boxes and book cases into the new school. I had the system unit on the floor, which was not ideal, and the printer on the other side of the monitor/keyboard, but I think I am going to like this arrangement better. I still have to do some minor moving of the speakers, but as I rarely listen to music when I am working, they are okay for now.
Prof. McGranahan, you would be so proud of me on the hardware--it took a great deal longer to take it all apart than to reconnect it, and I could name all those cords I was hooking up! My cat will have to adapt to using the printer/scanner all the time if she wants to help me conpute now; she was getting a bit big for the big speaker anyhow. She would get up there and fall asleep and fall off now and again, and she always looked SO put out!
4 comments:
Linda,
If you have access to Microsoft Publisher, you could use that to create your newspaper and then save it as HTML (file - save as Web Page). But then again, you are going to need a server to send your files to in order for it to be available on the web.
You really need a desktop publishing software, though, to really create a great looking newspaper. If you do not have Microsoft Publisher available, you can use Scribus - an open source desktop publishing program. I'm not too familiar with it (just found it today), but it looks much like Publisher.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Prof. McGranahan
Wow Linda, I am so impressed with your digital newspaper idea. That is definitely something you could continue even when you are a librarian. I cannot wait to hear more about it. I definitely do not know much about computer programs but our school does have Microsoft Publisher and the students really like it. Good luck and keep us posted.
Way to go Linda! Glad to see you boldly going into the digital newspaper business.
Linda, I love the pics. Keira is a great looking cat. We had a beautiful black one also. She was one amazing cat!! Your home office set up looks like a good one. I envy you. School year sounds like it is going to be hard, but good. I like the idea of the digital newspaper. What a good idea. Should be fun!
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