This post is not about a new technology but more of a reflection on when your planned use of technology goes wrong. We have learned of a lot of great tools that we can apply to learning, but what happens when the technology your relying on goes wrong. I remember when I was teaching a night class at DMACC. I Was relying on the standby powerpoint as a guide. Thus all of the activities and such that I had planned I used PowerPoint slides to show the instructions. I get to campus and my class is moved to a different room, that does not have an instructor PC, what now? This is one of those situations when you have to punt. Another example is in the college that I work for in California. We are in the middle of a pre-term start and running orientation for over a thousand students and the system that produces reports as to student progress goes down. How do we punt?
Just my thought for the evening?
