The saga continues. The students in French class made a podcast and I wanted them to complete a survey following the podcast. As there wasn't enough time in class, I thought I would take a laptop cart down the hallway to the room where they have class. I checked with the teacher who manages the cart and saw there was a padlock on it but he said he had the key. Needless to say the day I rolled the  cart down the teacher with the key was nowhere to be found so I could not use the laptops.

Today, armed with the key, I rolled the cart down, proudly asked the students to take a laptop and complete the survey posted on the school website. First, the laptops were not charged, but undeterred, I plugged in the whole cart and took out a few laptops and put them on top of the cart, still connected to the charger. Once open the students told me they couldn't connect to the internet...the class was in a dead zone!

So then I asked students with smart phones to download QR Readers and scan a QR code I had made for the survey and connect that way to the survey. I took out my phone and used that as well. By the end of the class I had connected 6 more surveys.

After class I took one of the laptops and went back to the dead zone classroom to test out connections, thinking I had not been patient enough. No connection. I told the IT tech and he said if it didn't work in the class (the receptors were 2 classrooms away), to go out into the corridor. (Clearly this is not an educator speaking, but a tech!) So back I went with the laptop and it worked. I stood by the door.

Tomorrow I will once again roll the laptop cart down the corridor and have the students stand outside of class and complete the survey.

What is frustrating in all this is that I am working with a teacher who is tech averse! Well who wouldn't be under these circumstances.