Cyber Frustration
Why is it everytime a computer system is upgraded to become "better" it becomes twice as complicated?
I took my class to the computer lab today for their first computer reading lesson. Put them in pairs, sat them at their computers. Last year at this time I would have simply asked them to log in with the passwords they have been using forever, but with the overhaul in the system late last year all the students now have a new random password. Get that list from the library- log in all the computers. Time taken- ten minutes. Pass out stickies with the lesson URL on it for the students to put in. Discover the webpage is restricted and they can't get in to it. Perplexed because I double-checked that website just before school started and it was working fine. Ask the librarian and she tells me it's because as a teacher I have to imput all the student names onto a new cyber classlist of mine to open access to the Internet for my students. Had no idea I had to do this. Fifteen more minutes have gone by...
In the long run we open one computer under my name and we do a teacher-directed lesson to get the reading work done. Not ideal, but better than having the students sitting there not completing their reading assignment. And now I have to figure out how to set up the new cyber list and connect all the students, etc., etc., before attempting to bring them to the computer lab again.
'Cause I don't have enough to do with a UT practice on Wednesday and a parent Curriculum Night on Thursday...
I took my class to the computer lab today for their first computer reading lesson. Put them in pairs, sat them at their computers. Last year at this time I would have simply asked them to log in with the passwords they have been using forever, but with the overhaul in the system late last year all the students now have a new random password. Get that list from the library- log in all the computers. Time taken- ten minutes. Pass out stickies with the lesson URL on it for the students to put in. Discover the webpage is restricted and they can't get in to it. Perplexed because I double-checked that website just before school started and it was working fine. Ask the librarian and she tells me it's because as a teacher I have to imput all the student names onto a new cyber classlist of mine to open access to the Internet for my students. Had no idea I had to do this. Fifteen more minutes have gone by...
In the long run we open one computer under my name and we do a teacher-directed lesson to get the reading work done. Not ideal, but better than having the students sitting there not completing their reading assignment. And now I have to figure out how to set up the new cyber list and connect all the students, etc., etc., before attempting to bring them to the computer lab again.
'Cause I don't have enough to do with a UT practice on Wednesday and a parent Curriculum Night on Thursday...