18 October 2016
I didn't quite "make it"...but I'm employed and writing this.
I'm still here.
Feel free to hear Elaine Stritch in your head.
Technology hates me.
For No Known Reason DPS uses both Schoology AND Infinite Campus for grading.
The two platforms are not the best of friends, and so we have to forcibly synch our grades from Schoology to IC every week.
And...you've met me. You know where this is going.
At first they weren't synching because I hadn't assigned them to do so in the platform. A simple, stupid step that made me click PROCESS- PROCESS and PRODUCT-PRODUCT.
Duh.
So I did that.
And on 5 October, they sank. Synched. Sank. I like sank.
But since then, they do not.
I hit synch and they do not synch.
Even if I go into IC and double synch there, it's not working.
I am doing all the steps I was shown. They only worked the one time.
In theory, that means it should work every time.
End of quarter one was Friday. We were supposed to spend our PLT time synching during first period, but there was a fire drill. I had to teach and get grades in the rest of the day, and my next planning period I was in MI/S helping out because all the paras called in.
So by the time I could sit actually alert admin to my issue, it was 4 pm.
I guess they can help me figure it out on Monday. My classes are so small and I have no athletes I do not think I am a major road block.
Because this is not a me problem. I'm pushing all the right buttons. This is a platform problem.
This is a DISTRICT problem becasue somebody made a lot of money agreeing to use two platforms when ONE would suffice. ONE is what I used in two different districts, with little to no issues.
In addition, I had to be the first proctor for the P/SAT. By they way, everyone I know in other districts got a fall break but we did not--we got proctoring P/SAT. First proctor means they loaded the platform on me and I have to track students.
I couldn't breathe. I have some nasty PTSD from previous P/SAT platforms that shut down on my computer. That time the coordinator thought all the kids in my room had stopped taking the test, but they were still taking the test, my platform had just stopped working. She was very wound up because an irregular incident report had to be filed and clearly it was my fault for agreeing to help out and I was new in the building so they didn't know about me and I got yelled at and my anxiety spiked and there was literally No Way I had done a single thing wrong.
I Hate Technology.
But this time it went fine. I even told the coordiator this was causing me anxiety and he thought I was funny, but sent me a kind second proctor who was a lovely, calming presence.
And now I have to go to the AT&T store, because my phone is old and Jim got a new one last week that has decided his phone number is my phone number, so messages from him come up as being from me.
Also my messages to Harp come up as being from Jim.
And when I send myself links to my number from my, they go to Jim.
Dude.
DOOOOOOOOOD.
I am sick to my stomach right now, I have so much anxiety over having to get a new phone. I hate this every time. It never goes smoothly and I Hate It. I never have the codes to Do The Thing.
This is my last Iphone. When it dies, I'm getting an old lady flip phone from Consumer Cellular.
I also need a laptop of my own, as I've been relying on school laptops too long. I had one for a minute, but it was glitchy----I know, I see your shocked face---and was in the shop for about half of the time I had it. It also had a specific power cord that got lost, and I had to do research to find a. resplacement Ugh. It was A Whole Thing.
kryssi, tell me you hate technology without telling me you hate technology.
Scene.
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