April 22, 2008

Happy Earth Day to all!!! This is a time when I reflect on some of the technology and the good and harm it does to our planet. I am still the eternal optimist because I say that there is more good than harm, but with the ever burgeoning technological advances, I wish that more people would recycle their old technology the correct way. Enough of the soapbox. I spent most of the day troubleshooting. I did do some collaborative teaching, but most of it dealt with IT issues. I have also noticed that some students want to play with taking the keys off of the lappys. This creates two issues. One is the plastic breaks easily under the keys, and two teachers need to check the computers while they are being shelved. I did have my meeting after school and warned the teachers who were there about this problem and asked them to check the puters before being shelved. I also talked about the wiki and office 2007. I gave them a handout on word and nonlinear ppt's. I also told them that I have a wiki posted. Another teacher is interested on doing some online blogging with his class so I will get that ready tomorrow. We will see what tomorrow brings. adieu.