Today was a challenging, boring, almost completely UNproductive. What is it that we did without the internet?
Here is just a brief list of what I COULD NOT do:
1) I could not check email
2) I could not send email
3) I could not look at my grade book--it is ALL online
4) I could not add grades to the grade book since I could not log on.
5) I could not find pictures for my lesson later this week.
6) I could not print anything--due to the fact that the computer could not find the printer
7) I could not create my lesson plans for next week
8) I could not look at the lesson plans for this week
9) I could not take attendance of ANY of my classes
10) I could not fill out paper work that I needed for my Special Education folder/meetings
11) The phones did not work
12) Any message to or from the office or to or from other teachers/classes had to be sent with HAND DELIVERED NOTES!!!!!
My students were completing a test today, so I had an entire 8 hours to do whatever I needed to do; HOWEVER, nearly NOTHING was accomplished.
What I WAS able to accomplish on this very challenging day:
1) I graded tests from last week that many of my students completely BOMBED! All because they did not read the directions.
2) I met my Ready, Set, Teach student from the high school. She will be with me until May! She DOES NOT LIKE ENGLISH! She wanted a Math class! Whatever am I gonna do?
Just to let you all know: School begins a 8:15 and lets out at 3:25. ALL schools in the district were without internet for the morning, but they were all up and running by lunch time. Agnew was the only one down all day long. The internet came up at 3:45...20 whole minutes AFTER school let out, and 15 minutes BEFORE all the teachers left for the day.
I must say....the entire day was so strenuous that ALL the teachers were gone early. We could not deal with any more today. :-/
How do you think you would fare without the internet?
What would you NOT be able to do without the internet?
How would you spend your time?
Just some questions to see if I am the only non-technologically advanced person that feels useless without the use of technology during the day.
Isn't is funny to think that we couldn't handle anything else today, even after we spent the whole entire day dealing with NOTHING...literally......
