I get paid playing

All of our middle school teachers have their own laptop and projectors in a cart made by Balt. This week, I spent most of my time trying to install a surge protector that would be compatible to the laptop/projector cart that we already have. Previously, the teachers were only given the the normal surge protector that you could get from any home improvement store. Complaints about it not being long enough plagued my inbox. Finally, an order for a cart surge protector was placed.

I installed the surge protectors but one of the carts wasn't compatible to it so I had to ask our janitor to screw the holes on the aluminum cart. Oh well that's one job off my list of things to do.

The IPM board from Numonics is pretty old - acquired in 2006. After troubleshooting using wireless and wired connections, the software was found to be corrupted. So there I was in the middle school wing's hallway with the IWB and the laptop cart uninstalling and installing the newer version of the software. I really hate editing the registry but I had to so that the teachers could use it. Messing up the registry is one thing I hope would never to happen to me.

As I was testing the new version, one of the students was walking down the hallway and looked at me perplexed and asked "What are you doing?". I replied "I am playing. I get paid playing". The look in his face was a classic. :)

On the side note, one of my 3rd grade teacher is getting accustomed to using VoiceThread that she even created her first one (with very minimal help from me) to record her class saying prayers in Italian. I am proud of her and her students.