"One Thing" for Wed. Nov. 6

I'm sure that this has been the subject of myriads of blog posts before, but whoever said "technology is great, but only when it works" really had the gist of it. We were starting our class blogs today. My class was excited. In fact, they were so excited that they were barely able to last in front of the white board when I gave them the directions of how to log in. It turns out only the girls really followed the directions, but after a few repeated questions, we were all ready to go.

We are using edublogs, a classroom format based off of our newest class blog Located Here.

The goal for today was threefold. Change to a new password, make a first post (by deleting the existing cookie-cutter/placeholder one that was there) and finally to change the appearance/design of your blog so that it could be unique to you. We got started. And then, the internet went down. Some students rebooted quickly and were back at it. Some turned on their wi-fi (not helpful) while others just sat there watching their pages try to load. In fact, one boy never actually got logged in at all. Ahh, the internet. I will say that this is the first time my class has had trouble in the lab this year after the tech people did a big upgrade from last year. Murphy's law on the timing, however for this letdown. It kind of ruined the excitement of our first day.

Anyway, we don't have too much written yet, but that will be coming. And so, in a future post, will be all the reasons we are doing this. Stay tuned.