Kristi Swartz says:
May 1, 2011 at 4:17 pm
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I would like to share an experience with using technology in the classroom last year as I was completing a long-term substitute job. 5th grade students were using computers to create preposition examples through visual images. Students were to go online and find 10 images relating to a main image of their choice, and create sentences with prepositions to go along with the positioning of the visuals on the page in relation to the main image, to show understanding of prepositions.
During work time, students found images, and cut and pasted them onto a word document surrounding one main image of their choice. For example, one student had an image of a horse in the middle. They found an image of a cloud, pasted it above the horse, and wrote, “The cloud is above the horse.”, underlining the preposition “above” in the sentence. Once students found 10 images, and used them along with the images on the page, they were to show me, and print the paper. This is where technology went terribly wrong. Students were pressing the print button, and when the page did not print immediately, they kept hitting the print button time and again. Students expressed frustration, and I soon found that the printer was out of paper; when I added paper, I saw that many, many copies of their documents were coming and coming with no end in sight! We were inundated with preposition papers! Upon noticing this, I instructed students to only use the print button once! I now, never, have students print documents without first reminding them of the importance of pressing the print button only once- I share this experience, and students connect to examples of this happening in their own home, or in another class with giggles.
My solution to the many, many extra pages of preposition examples you ask- I saved the preposition papers and used them as a pre-assessment for preposition understanding in my class this year. This is just one of many technology mishaps in the classroom. I anticipate many more as I do more and more technology for and with my students! Technology, gotta love it!
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Josh Tolar says:
May 1, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Kristi,
I have had this happen to me so many times at work. Most of the time I am printing to a high quality printer for CD and DVD artwork and this usually includes 50 to 100 copies. I have made the mistake more than once of thinking the artwork was final and starting the print job and after 10 pages I noticed an error. For one computer this is an easy fix, but for a whole classroom that can be quite a challenge. Hitting the print button once was a great solution to fix this. I learned that in my case to always start with one page so I don’t waste any ink or paper.
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Jim Farmer says:
May 3, 2011 at 12:33 am
Ink and toner are such expensive extras that I have tried my best to avoid printing whenever possible. I have used sribd.com, slideshare.net, google docs and presentations, glogster.edu, and too many other web 2.0 tools to list. I know it’s not always feasible, but I always try to find a non-printer way of doing things first and I find that most times I can do what I need to without having it on paper.
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Rowdy Granado says:
May 2, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Kristi-
This has happened so many times in my class, so now, I have my kids ask me before they can print. Once they get permission they can only hit the print button once and then have to have their print monitor up so they can see the progress of their print.
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