Well I must say I am very frustrated in the lab this year, but I have done this enough times to know that just before a roll out of new machines everything starts to freeze up and break down.
Yesterday I modeled how to create a tally chart using Kidpix, for the Grade 2 class. They excitedly logged on and got started, one by one EVERY machine in the lab froze, before Kidpix was even fully functional. This is so disappointing for the students. The message for us all is to have a non computer back up plan just in case.
You never know when the Board IT guy is going to come along to reimage machines, the machines are going to freeze or the network itself is going to go down, therefore as in anything that involves power, make sure you have a back up plan.
With the grade 2s, although they were disappointed, they created hand drawn tally charts and collected their data. This is a good lesson for them too.
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