When I taught Computer Literacy for SUNY Plattsburg, I warned my students about the dependability of computer technology. Don't trust it. Everyone knows Murphy's Law: Anything That Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong.
Well, with computers, we need to add another Law: "Anything That Can't Go Wrong, Will Find Some Way Of Going Wrong."
Please follow the following technology guidelines for my classes:
- Do NOT email me your work. Being responsible for my work is more than enough.
- If your printer fails you, email your work to a friend to print out for you. You all have friends.
- If necessary, email your work to yourself as an attached file. Open the file at school and print it out before class starts.
- If absolutely necessary, bring the file on a thumb drive, early in the morning, and ask a teacher for help getting it printed. Student profiles do not have access to the USB ports. This is a last resort only.
- Back up your files! This cannot be emphasized strongly enough. The Computer God is all rules and no mercy and He will smite you. Save your files to a removable disc.
- While working, save constantly!
- Make sure the programs you use are compatible with the school's programs. If you don't have MS Office at home, you can very often save files in an Office format: File Menu > Save as > Save as Type > Select appropriate program from the pull down menu.
- Went over technology guidelines.
- Reviewed peer review process: read mindfully for careless errors, grammar and mechanics issues. Also note positives, where imagery is done well, etc.
- Final copy due Thursday.
- Journal: Who has had the greatest impact on you and why?
- Collected theme/tone essays.
- Discuss journals.
- Intro "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury.
- Since short story packets have not arrived yet, we will be reading out of the anthology and annotating in notebooks.
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