Click and wait, is that on the standards? There is something going on with the router, or the wireless access point. It is bad. This is the opposite of the work I love to post. This is me prepping for an hour before a forty minute class because the iPads are taking a minute and a half each to set up. All I am doing is opening a browser, navigating to a page, and logging them into a profile.
If the students were older I could ask them to log in, but with my 3rd grade class this would mean losing 10 minutes of the all too short 45 minute class.
There isn’t much to do about the slowness of the internet. The router will be replaced in the coming weeks, and if past performance is any indication, the problem will migrate to a new piece of equipment. This is the daily struggle of interdependent factors that make the position of tech integration specialist necessary. Someone has to be available to do all of the extra prep and recovery from all of these great technology related assignments.
If I want the 3rd grade to use the website Tynker.com, I need to set up accounts several days before class and on the morning of class I need to get each iPad signed in to the right account. Following the class I have to work with the teacher to make a selection of the work visible on their public blog. This is not an extraordinary amount of work to do for one tech rich lesson. Accounted out, it might be as much as 10 minutes per student overall, start to finish. (10 min x 48 students = 480min= 8 hours).
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