On Tuesday morning we had a tekkie brekkie. This seems to involve bring our laptops to the home ec room, eating a breakfast together and seeing if we can fix each others problems.
No-one can fix my problems. They are such simple things - I want to be able to put wallpaper on my computer, and the function for doing so has been disabled. And I want to update Java, and the function for doing that has been disabled as well. It appears to be something wrong with the way the laptop has been imaged.
So instead of being a learner I became one of the teachers. My first task was to make the projector work. It took a wee bit of thinking and remember all the problem shooting I had done with my class room one, but the problem was sorted eventually, and I felt pretty chirpy that I did solve that rather public problem, and looked competent.
And then one of our older staff, who sometimes moans because she can't get her laptop to work, and because there is no cable to her classroom and so she cannot do electonic roll keeping started moaning about getting her laptop to work. So I decided to help - after all the only other thing to do was eat. For some reason the computer dude had set up her computer with all the programs hidden. He hides the c drive. Why would you hide all the programs??? So I did some icon dragging and set it up so she can now operate computer without having to be on the network. The hardest thing was overcoming the repeated statements that this was too hard. And then the rush to turn the thing off. I just stopped her and made her do revision - she is as bad as the kids she disparages. She has certainly absorbed their techniques!! I must go back and see if she has tried starting the thing again, and whether what I did worked.
Posted by Toni at November 2, 2006 08:30 AM