Today Craig and Ammerias are coming for a site visit! Jerry is out of town, but should be back this afternoon and Melody has not been feeling well. I have lots of video of Cody building a panel to edit,…
week 3, day 3-the climax of this adventure
Woot woot! I made it to the climax! It is all down here from here! I treated myself to Starbucks this morning to celebrate and recovery from such a Monday yesterday. Stared the day alerting Kirk that the internet server…
week 3 day 2: HML
Today started like a Monday…one of those days I just wanted to roll over and stay at home instead of getting out of bed at 5:30am!!! It’s SUMMERTIME-WHAT I am doing waking up at 5:30am to drive more than an…
Connecting Your Summer Externship to Your Classroom
I was very hesitant when I first interviewed about how all this at Mertek would fit into my classroom. I thought I only teach one unit on machines…Boy was I wrong! Everything fits so nicely! I want to: update the…
week 3 day 1
Woot woot the 4th of July holiday was so nice and refreshing! Met with Andy-the part-time contracted technical writer, he writes the user manuals for each machine. This is housed in the folders within the software that they build for…
week 2, day 4
Chuck took Henrietta and I over to Pentair for a bit. Lots of machines were running this morning that had not been the other afternoon. Saw many robots for industry in action, some which Mertek had built or added/modified parts…
Week 2, day 3
Eureka! Just had a moment-I was thinking of how Melody has me look up invoices every Wednesday. I need to have my students do some kind of being organized. When I 1st started teaching I would have them find 10…
week 2 day 2
Business Meeting: several guys on vaca, lots of new projects are coming, changing insurance companies…and something about people who are late and donuts-Ill have to ask Melody about this. Met with Kevin, he is Jerry’s brother and is the shop…
Technology Challenges
WHEW! A week ago this first blog would have been several pages long. First the Lenovo tablet was a PAIN!! It should have come with instructions! After many you-tube videos and help with Randy about getting the time/date and language…
week 2 day 1
Today Jerry met with me to go over my ideas for my project: virtual tour/gallery walk. I started looking at the template for the lesson plan and getting together the basic info needed for it. After lunch Jerry took us…