Students are completing their final of their photo essay. They have been working on and off between Tech class and social studies and writing class - taking pictures, downloading them, editing them into black and white, formatting Word document to our specifications, pre-planning in social studies, pre-planning in writing, rough draft, revising, typing draft, revising...and revising more. Finally, last week, all their work was coming together into the beautiful final piece. It's been HARD work for them, and us. Computer issues have been many, mainly...getting students onto the server, because they couldn't. Other problems, students working faster than other kids...so what do you do when they get done? Or how do you support those students who are seriously behind when the number of students who don't need lab time outweigh those who do? What happens to the student project who was almost done, and the computer just completely crashed his project, and no matter what you say, it is MONTHS of exhaustive work that has been lost, and the prospect of starting over is just too much? I don't have the answers, and it is discouraging.
One last question...maybe someone can help? We want students to get onto our laptops under their server log in so that we can save their project onto a flash drive while we are in the classroom during other work. This worked for us well last year. We can move on, without having to be in the lab. However, when students have tried to login using our laptop, Microsoft Word does not exist...and they can't pull their project up. It comes up as a text edit box thing. Ultimately, students can't pull their projects up on our laptops...is it because we have Microsoft 2011?
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