January 6, 2012- 7 Hours

INTRODUCTION OF TECHNOLOGY OF ALTER:

 Today I met with Beth Budd, who is Technology Coordinator for Alter High School, to discuss my internship’ days and activities at Alter. It was the first day of my internship. She informed me about the log which is in Graduate Internship Manual. She asked me if I would like to do as activities. Because I thought I should do activities planned by her, I did not have any plan today. So, next week, I will bring some activities that I would like to learn and that will meet Educational Technology Academic Content Standards. Then we will combine my activities and hers. Firstly, she introduced me the technology of Alter.

Firsly, we reviewed some rooms of Alter having projectors and whiteboards such as study hall and gym. Then, we reviewed the black box providing all support of technology such as mic, speaker, controlling the projector, playing video, screen transforming and other a lot of things in the study hall.

Another introducing activitiy of the Alter's technology was going to IT Help Desk and Operations Office and meeting Jeff, who is a member of tech team.

I reviewed the Jeff's working. He was doing installation of the new library online system.

-Then, we went to take a look at wireless boxes at Alter. There are 51 wireless boxes there. So the connection speed of internet is so strong.

-Beth had the new additionally outlets in her office. Because using of outlet stripts is not safe, new plugs are put in her office.

- Because of this new outlets, her desktop PC was unsettled. So I set her computer.

-We reviewed the Website of Alter High School to update information about student's usernames by using Learning Management System named Black Board.
- We talked about a program named Ren Web that teachers use it such as entering of their students' grades.
-Talking about a tab on the website named ‘Parent Web’. We created a username and a password for one of the parents. Then this parent was informed about that by Beth.
-Beth showed me how to enter students’ behaviors, grades and absences on Ren Web. All information about all students are there by categorizing of their grades like sophomore, senior.
-I got some information about students' laptop. ( every junior student have alptop provided the school). These laptops are Fujitsu. At the end of the school year, they have to return their laptop.
- I tied to find a solution for a student's laptop. His laptop's was frozen. It could not open by keeping to show just windows logo. After a couple trying to solve this problem, it could not be open. I got it to give Jeff. He gave a Loan laptop temporarily to student until his laptop will be fixed.
-Some students came up to Beth's office. They are in Technology Club which is not so active.
-I watched the Beth's working about preparing a form that shows the internet access provider's rate in Ohio. After printing out it, Beth went to show it to principal.
-We talked about some windows tools such as extending the screen to 2 separate screen.( You can find some information about that on microsoft supporting website)We also talked about Snipping Tool. ( There is a link including a video here that you can figure out about how to use it)  It provide to capture the screen like ‘prt sc’, but it also allows to cut where ever you want of this screen you captured. It is with only Windows 7, not before versions of Windows.
-Then we talked about ‘Moodle’ that I also use for my class named Issues & Implications of Telecom in the Ed Environment. Moodle provides to all schools to extend teachers' using technology for their classes.
- Then we talked about differences between Macs and PCs and IT people's tasks in companies.

Except these, she introduced me to other teachers and staffs. For instance, I met with a teacher who teaches business. She teaches multimedia classes like movie maker in this class: