Meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 24 with Bruce Herold

- I met with Bruce for the first time this week. He had basically one question, which is how to use the angel email system to send out mass emails to his students. He needed to forward important emails from department heads onto his students. I showed him how to use the angel email system and also how to attach emails within the message. After completing this task, I asked him if I could give him an overview of Angel but he wasn't too willing to do that. He basically wanted me to solve this task which had been bugging him for a while. I am meeting with him today (Monday, Jan. 29) to go over how to use the podium in a lecture hall properly. This might be our last meeting today, but I will encourage him to email me if he has any further questions later on in the semester.

Meetings lined up for this week:

- Monday, Jan. 29 with Bruce Herold to go over podium technology and usage.

- Sent Jon Olson an email to continue on with our tutoring sessions from last semester.

- Sent Elise Uhring an email to set up a meeting for this Wednesday to start meetings.

Hours for week: 2
Cumulative Hours: 2

Hi all,

In follow-up to last night's meeting:

-I've attached the flyer that we post and give out to faculty who may want a tutor. Please feel free to distribute as appropriate.

-Please send Dan and myself a list of any faculty members you may be tutoring at the moment. These could be carry overs from last semester or ones recently assigned. In your note please include:
--the name and email of the faculty member
--your meeting schedule
--the topics you are covering

-Remember to update you calendar with your spring schedule so Dan can see when you are available.

I have a client who has a survey in word, which also contains macros (which I am not well acquainted with), and when he opens the file on his computer he’s seeing funny characters. However, when I attempted to open the file on my home computer and on a lab machine there were no funny characters displayed. One reason for this could be because he has an older version of Windows than the lab machines. Any other explanations?

Total hours this week: 1 h

- Meet Craig Eozzo on Dec.15, 1:00pm-2:00pm, at 247 Chambers. First I answered a few general questions about Breeze. Then We set up a meeting room step by step. We played around the meeting room and checked the basic functions in it. Craig would like to have a few more meetings next semester. However, since I will not be able to continue consultation next semester, another tutor is needed to work with Craig.

- Sent email to Maureen Jones, but didn't get reply since last Monday. Because I will be out of town after this Tuesday(Dec 19). I will let Dan know about it and see if we need to re-assign another tutor.

Kathleen Postle is a lecturer in BMB who was interested in learning about the ANGEL platform. She is a new professor to Penn State and was excited to learn about the ease of our course management system. She had signed on to ANGEL before but had never started to use it. I first introduced her to the online help section as well as started to build a course website for one of her disabled courses. We discussed adding and editing folders, quizzes, surveys, webpages and uploading files. She was extremely enthusiastic about everything and found ANGEL to be idiot proof. We worked on improving her comfort level in working online, and she will be playing around with her course website over the next few weeks. She has scheduled a second meeting with me in order to answer any questions or overcome any obstacles she may encounter while constructing her site.

I also met with Maritza briefly today to help her copy some data across different Excel tables. She has become increasingly more computer literate since we have begun our sessions and where she used to fear signing on to ANGEL, she now feels very comfortable.

Additionally, I e-mailed Robert Slaney, a new consult, with hopes of squeezing in one more client before the semester’s end.

I look forward to my upcoming meetings on the 19th with both Maritza and Kathleen and I hope to be back next semester to continue my consultations.