In Cyberspace no one can hear you scream ......
... but in the classroom they can.
Less than a week back into the new term and the learning platform is driving me mad.
Access...
... it slowed to a crawl during some lessons ... if a web page takes longer than 15 seconds to load visitors surf elsewhere ... in the classroom this length of time can seem like an eternity.
4/9/08
Crashed....
... it did during three Year 11 ICT lessons ... the last one was 15 minutes before the end of the last lesson of the day... always have a backup is the answer I (grudgingly) suppose.
7/9/08
Students often ...
... change their original password to something they forget by the start of next lesson......
10/9/08
Files...
.... that upload and work properly on my home PC do strange things in school e.g. video clips will sometimes play and sometimes not.
11/9/08
Browsers....
... a lesson that looks fine on Firefox may and does look different when Explorer is used.
12/9/08
Design...
What looked easy to navigate when I designed it at home suddenly does not look so easy to navigate from a student point of view....
13/9/08
Large Graphic files...
Did I really upload that massive graphic that took ages to download?
14/9/08
... and the presence of a spider on a keyboard does not do much for class control!
September
Ongoing problems with the 'speed' and access to the learning platform.
Waiting 20-30 seconds for a page to load is simply too slow in the average classroom.
After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy. John Pierce
