The best part of being a teacher that began teaching before there was so much technology in the classroom is that I'm not overly dependent on it to get my work done. Yes, there are times when the SmartBoard doesn't work that I have a mini meltdown inside as I scramble to figure out what to do, but for the most part I have a back up. However, when you get really excited about doing something, and write about it in your blog, and have technology conk out on you, you can feel really devastated.
Last week I was to begin my video blog with my students. I should have known something was amiss when my colleague next door warned me to be careful with the outlets because one of her students went to charge his phone and received a shock. I opened the Chromebook cart and noticed that the indicator lights were off on all the books. When I opened one, the battery had been drained. As it turns out, there was some sort of short. This is my explanation of whatever happened, which was explained to me but that I couldn't grasp. I'm sure I could grasp the reasoning, however, all I heard was, "This will take a while, therefore your project has been derailed."
My students will go a different route with their poems, we've decided to have a class slam. Students will work in groups to prepare each other to read their poems with style. Every poem will be read in front of the class, instead of recorded. I was concerned my kids would be disappointed, but they took it in stride. "That's what happens, Miss," one student said, referring to technology. Yup, that's what happens. Thank goodness for being able to fall back on the "old-fashioned" classroom.
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