Frustration

Yesterday the level of frustration with the wireless connection sent several students at one school into overload, expressing by slamming shut their laptop lids and refusing to work further. Two of these students had taken the Packet 4 quiz three times without getting it to submit properly due to equipment lock-up or shut-down. The IT person for the school visited the class twice.

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Today, a thought came to me about why it is that one school has more troubles than the other one with the same type/age of equipment. What I did this morning was to take all the laptops out of my office and set them up in the library where the wireless connection box sits on the check-out desk. So far there seems to be an improvement with connectivity.  Of the two classes, the IT person only had to visit once and that may have been because the student anticipated the usual trouble. By the time IT arrived (within a few minutes), the student had figured out something and all was well.  Clearly, the plan for that school is to arrive early, roll the laptops on a cart 10 feet from my office, plug them in, and we're good to go.

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