We've been back to school for about two weeks now. I decided to change things up with my fourth grades and start the year with Ancient Crete and Greece. I made a Smart Notebook presentation with all these little video clips, and kind of stumbled through it with my first group (it felt kind of disjointed or something?). I was really hitting my stride with my introductions with the second group. . . and then the network went down. Which meant no internet. No showing video clips or external links. My whole introduction was ruined! Right in front of the class! So, I decided to act out the links. Like some weird improv, I danced and galloped and did lots of jazz hands. And sweated. Lots. Did they get the information??? I sure hope so.
And the network stayed down. For two days. Goodbye video'd demonstrations loaded onto an external site for sixth grade, hello demonstrating over and over.
A class would come in and I'd start with whatever was planned and then realize 'I can't show that/do that.' It was like someone had cut off an arm or something.
But somehow we survived. The internet connection was restored and we kept on keepin' on.
I'm not AT ALL saying the Greece Smart Notebook lesson is a great one (at this point I'm not even sure it's good), but if you're interested, let me know and I'll drop it in my Smart Notebook files for you to use. And maybe your internet will work, all day.
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