1. Computers always seem to know when you are in a hurry...they tend to go much slower at those times or just don't work.
2. When you try to use wireless tablets to answer questions on the board...why does it seem not to connect at the weirdest times? There have been times where in the middle of teaching, my tablet stops working and needs to be reset.
3. The ever changing software. You just learn a new program like Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 comes out with even more new features to try to understand.
4. The items that make things supposed to help a teacher out seem to take the most amount of time. We have a clicker answering system that it takes forever to make but automatically grades responses.
5. Wireless networks. Sometimes they have really fast speeds, the next day in the same location, the speeds are much slower.
6. Why one remote can change any projector! We had a staff meeting to talk about our new projectors and were told to bring our remotes. Need less to say, we were all adjusting the settings on a teachers' projector at the same time because everyones remotes can control any projector!
7. Classrooms should be equiped with longer cords for our computers. Arranging your computer and desk area can be difficult in a building that was built long ago and wired recently.
8. I hate seeing and reading the words: trouble communicating with printer. How can you have trouble communicating with the printer when everything IS plugged in and connected through a USB? Even after installing it AGAIN! I got a new printer after that!
9. Why do they make laptop batteries only last a few hours? People buy laptops for a reason...shouldn't the battery be able to last the whole day? I'm sure it is coming...let's hope!
10. Until this class I never used skype. Why didn't we think of this a long time ago? I'm sure it's been out there but the Jetsons had video telephone long before we did. How come the TV show did not spark the interest back then?!
I can relate. Why is it that technology wants to give us trouble when we are in the middle of teaching. Makes me go hmmm as well...how frustrating! It seems like every time I go to use my Dukane a black screen comes up and I have to stop what I am doing, go under my computer desk, unplug it, and then plug it back in. It works just fine after that...weirdest thing!
ReplyDeleteYou have so many things that I didn't even think to write in mine but I have totally noticed! I am working on a plugged-in laptop right now. Kind of takes away from the whole portable aspect. The computer always works really slow when you need it the most, and sometimes times out and takes you back to the previous page - right when you had entered all your credit card information.
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel with your number one. Today I was running off the progress reports to send home and it wouldn't open the application! I had 5 minutes left for lunch and it was my last break in the day. Very frustrating!
ReplyDeleteYou are so right about #1! I think everyone has experienced that. I know that just this morning I had to be in a meeting in 5 minutes and I was trying to print a piece of paper I needed for that meeting and of coure ran into 20 different problems to do that one simple task. Ahhhh!
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