laptop challenge

Packing up for the MEMO Conference in Brainerd, I brought along my laptop so as to become more familiar with it. It has been staring at me defiantly as it has been in MAC format and no mouse and all sorts of different ways to use it. What makes it worse, is that it is sleek and beautiful so it sits there smug and saucy as if to say, "You can't do it!" At a point when we were having a little time between sessions and such, I cracked it open and hoisted its alabaster lid and popped it on and began to work to get internet service. It said I wasn't "on." It then suggested I could be a guest of Craigun's! I acquiesced happily. It went on to say, "you still aren't on." I tried a few more times but then thought it best if I return to the next big group meeting which was lunch. After we were settled in, an announcement was made to let the attendees know that the presenters were in a quandry because the internet was down all over Craigun's! I was so happy to hear it. I realized that it wasn't just my ineptness in dealing with the alabaster adversary; that it was just a network down issue. It made lunch that much sweeter and later I went back to my room and the network was up and I was all over it with my AA. I still have issues with the "no mouse" pad in that it only works with one finger and when I get excited I have all my fingers working together and then it doesn't work. One of those times when intended cooperation is not useful.

Brownies and the Project Calculator for MILP

Last Friday, I demonstrated the Project Calculator to a student, our school secretary and told a couple of teachers about it. I then memo'ed the entire staff on the Project Calculator. The student was in awe of it and had used it with a project she had upcoming. Her teacher was in the Library just after we had practiced it and I told her about it and told her the student who had discovered it.
I demonstrated its use to the school secretary and she was dazzled and excited because her son is taking college classes and could use it with his papers. I especially loved the glossary as it has all the important phrases that could need clarifying with this Literacy bent of research. I am still seeking to remember how we split the screen so as to have the teacher parts side by side with the student parts. Since I was lucky enough to hear Leslie describe it at MEMO the previous weekend and then have the opportunity to hear about it again at our class on last Wednesday and then the following day hear about it yet once again at our Librarian's Meeting from 3 - 5pm hosted here at Humboldt. I think it was most appreciated at our Librarian's meeting due to playing the DVD about the project and having Wuollett's brownies and some other goodies to go with it!

What's in a blog?

What's in a blog? Let me count the ways!

Finding the correct website; not blogging in two!
Use the right email address when starting anew.
Motivated by shame: "We'll take your equipment away!"
Finding time near the end of a long, hairy day.
Create a title; check spelling to be sure.
Write all parts down; surely memory won't endure.
Get a starting format; change it later a lot,
With color and pics; each t has a cross, each i a dot.
Add a new posting with each new week
Behind already, maybe two instead will tweak?
But the posts be about new stuff in this MILP?
It's moving along; more learning for me

Whatever is a "libarian" 'posed to do?
In the fog with a blog; that posting's a coup!