September 11, 2013

I am starting to think technology hates me. The Chromebook charging issue yesterday and today, my projector is defunked and not working at all whatsoever. It needs to be replaced, so my beautiful powerpoint lesson is completely done for. What am I to do??

However we did, with the first class get into the Chromebooks and things worked well- with a couple minor issues: one of the track pads wasn’t working. One of the Chromes hadn’t charged at all. One of the kids has an account that is all in Arabic now.

An hour later, my projector was swapped out so that I can use my powerpoint with my class, however then I go to play the video and the sound is coming from the ELMO input while the computer screen is on another input. My crazy technology life!

September 10, 2013

It was my first day with the Chromebooks today! I had a beautiful lesson that built up to getting out the Chromebooks and logging in to do my first day survey. The kids were very excited to get them and turn them on and THEY WEREN’T CHARGED. The cart had been wired wrong and hadn’t charged all weekend. They were all dead and couldn’t be used. Four students were able to do the form and the others sat and listened as we talked about the information. They have to complete it for homework!

So she rewired the cart and said they’d charge and should be good for third block, about an hour away. So third block went up, got them out and again- NO CHARGE. She had to rewire the cart AGAIN to make them charge.

Technology is not without issue!