Lacking Internet

Not be whine excessively, but a technology-infused school shouldn't spontaneously lose its internet connection across campus for a full day.

Half of my lesson plan required taking my students to the computer lab to research for a presentation, but upon arriving at school to turn in my lesson plan, I discovered that we had no internet. No researching, kids.

Teachers must be flexible. We talked more about writing lab reports and helped the students revise their first draft. The average grammar, spelling and punctuation is abysmal. "Gunna" "you know", unnecessary "right?'s" and many more inappropriate terms are popping up. Instant Messenger and poor education will doom these kids. But, we're here to do our job, and if correcting lab reports includes brief lessons in subject-verb agreement, so be it.

Hopefully the tech works tomorrow. I'll be discussing the localization of brain function using images from fMRI machines (part of your brain does THIS and part of it does THAT...)

Wednesday is off (July 4th), so we'll see if the out-of-towners find a thing to do for the holiday. Back to writing my lesson plans for next week.