May2010AG

~ Worked on banana bread making colour combinations unique so bread all looks different...looks good except for when there are 12 loaves, they just plain look weird ~ team meeting re flashfest, and tool container next steps (see minutes) ~ worked on Slicing Banana Bread... Greg helped me modify the icon class so it only draws portions of the entire loaf... after adding loads of ifs... it works like a charm ~ now all I have to do is give each loaf of bread some individual character...really Crystal!!! ~ prep work for workshops this week - got a pointy finger to point to one of the cells.. still not quite the right cell.. but getting there. Crystal also approved the wording changes, and interactions that I created. PM ~ Holy Trinity math meeting ~ have a few questions for Crystal.. red slices.. highlighting of bottom 2/3, a couple of wording changes ~ added a couple "Communication functions" ~ getSum and getTotalArrays to slicing wholes and sent to Greg. ~ made up the binders for OAME ~ had a second look through Snow Day, it is basically ready to program ~ did a bit of board related office stuff, confirming a book order, writing intial BIP. ~ finished double checking trig fla's, uploaded and emailed Ross ~ Crystal re Snow Day final revisions and slicing whole changes... the only issue from Mel's review that I am going to deal with is the font for the text box and I am going to create a jing video. ~ worked on Trig fla's with Ross' help.. finished 5.3, 3.2 is in better shape, still needs some work, Ross is working on the layering for 3.1 ~plans for tomorrow, finish off and upload swf's so they can be tested on isengger. ~ Snow day is now done, Crystal wants me to take a final look at it. May 3 ~ spent a bit of time over breakfast tracking down some of Karen's unclear google doc comments re audio issues ~ when I logged on today, I got a message that told me windows could not find my local profile.. hence nothing on my desktop.. no home page for IE... other fun stuff I never discovered. So, I called the help desk and ended up making a trip to the FRC to get my computer fixed. ~ chatted with Brian ENgelfied re pedagogy supports for Activboard users, returned home and drafted an email with some ideas in it. ~ researcehd consent forms for EJ for a minstry project. PM ~ worked on Trig Fla's... spent lots of time, did not make much progress. ~ fixed a few audio issues... tried to understand a few other issues... made some attempts at fixing things.. sent an email to Ross for a consult. ~ uploaded Sean's fla's.. took forever from our internet challenged computer! Going to karate! MAy 2 ~ AM ~ BHNCDSB ~ budget, expenses, Director's meeting PM ~ CLIPS team meeting, tool container next steps, audio fla's in need of fixing status ~ Crystal re snow day ~ transferred Sean's trig fla's to the ftp site, started to track down the outstanding issues.
 * May 31 ~ Gauss Marking extravaganza!**
 * MAy 30 ~** conference with Crystal re Clip 1 storyboards, fly on the wall, showed her slicing banana bread, other stuff I can't remember
 * Mary 27 ~ BHNCDSB ~ GRADE 7/8 focus group**
 * May 26 ~ CLIPS Yeah!!!**
 * ~** second look at Pyramid Solitaire for Crystal
 * May 25 ~** Math Talk Learning Communities with SERTs
 * May 24 ~ BHNCDSB ~** GAP closing packaging final materials
 * May 23 ~ Victoria Day**
 * May 20 ~ banana bread:** Crystal helped me attach banana bread to the actual table.. yeah.. we also added an _x and _y to the icon class so I can reposition it.. need to finish off that nitpicky stuff... info._x to each lineto and curve to!
 * May 19 ~ 1/2 day Coaching at St. Patrick's**
 * 1/2 day ~ working on 8.1.4 Banana bread...**have managed to use the icon class to create banana bread... need to attach it to the correct table, made a date to chat with Crystal tomorrow re some changes I made and how to proceed with attaching the icon.
 * May 18 ~ 8.1.4 Multiplying a Fraction by a Whole number scene 4**
 * ~** working on converting slicing wholes to slicing banana bread... I think I have it.. except.. I need to add some ubWait stuff... and I need to grey out the combo messages as a new one apears.. right now only applies to one word at a time (Greg is going to look into this next week), also, I need to add a banana bread movie clip.. but I think the rest is working well.... commented out lots of unnecessary code and reworked other parts...pretty successful overall
 * May 17 ~ BHNCDSB -** School visit, Gr 6 GAP closing training
 * ~CLIPS ~** started working on adapting slicing wholes to become slicing banana bread for 8.1.4
 * May 16 ~ Sick day**
 * May 13 ~ OAME Conference, CLIPS Integer presentation with Mel, GAINS room**
 * May 12 ~ OAME Conference, worked in GAINS room**
 * May 11 ~ OMCA meeting, Windsor**
 * May 10 ~** Coaching at St. Bernards ~ Robot rules lesson
 * MAy 9 ~** photocopied pdf CLIPs resources for OAME
 * May 6 ~ Trig fla's : tested on isenegger**... found some things that had not been fixed... plugging away at fixing them.. will spend some more time this weekend so they are ready for OAME
 * May 5 ~** Plugging away at the Trig fla's. Have fixed most of the outstanding issues and uploaded them to the ftp... need to test them their and figure out the warning stuff for clip 1
 * May 4** ~ spoke with Mel and helped her to edit the paticipants instructions page, talked about OAME and 8.1.4 progress