Feedback Regarding Connected Learning

Use the thread below to make daily updates (during the first week for sure) of your work on the MacBook, the SJSD network, and your home network, etc. The feedback you provide throughout the remainder of this first semester will go a long way toward helping your school district best meet your mobile and connected learning needs well into the future. These updates need not be lengthy, nor in a great deal of depth. However, of course, the more detail you are able to provide- the better we're able to help. And remember, every little thing that helps your workflow, likely also impacts hundreds of other students in a positive way later on this year.

Thanks so much...

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Permalink Reply by Miles Redman on October 26, 2011 at 7:43am

I hope we get digital copies of our textbooks on these new laptops.

Permalink Reply by Sean Nash on October 26, 2011 at 9:35am

Tell me more, Miles. Why do you say so? I know the answer seems rather obvious to those of us who are really comfortable in digital spaces. But, I am actually quite interested to hear the specific reasons you are wanting digital textbooks. Is it about not carrying around books? Is it about being able to do things with digital textbooks that you couldn't do with a physical book? Is it that you prefer learning from essentially one source as opposed to multiple sources via the web? Flesh thins out a bit for me if you would...

Permalink Reply by Miles Redman on October 26, 2011 at 9:53am

Specifically it's the space restrictions most people have in their bags, for example I use a pretty roomy backpack and have trouble fitting the laptop case and textbooks in it (Although a lot of people might just not bring their book, in History classes this isn't normally an option). And about the other things you asked, I've only had a few classes that haven't used the textbook exclusively for assignment problems, so I would like being able to view them via the web or something similar. Ala Edmodo in Finite & MyMathLab in College Algebra.

Permalink Reply by NaKeisha Ekpe on October 28, 2011 at 2:11pm

I like Miles idea. I would like to access all the information i need for class from one place, like these laptops. It would be much easier. Teachers wouldn't get the many excuses they hear day to day such as "I forgot my book", "I forgot my notebook" or "I don't have a pencil". A expensive laptop, with everything i need for,class plus the extra things to keep myself awake during boring lectures.

Permalink Reply by Kyler John Frank on October 26, 2011 at 12:32pm

Today, October 25th, I had no issues whatsoever logging onto my computer at Central High School. I had no problems re-doing my DC Bio questions, and could get on Yahoo and Google with no issues. The only issue I had was on my email on Yahoo, and the internet just froze, and I had to exit Safari and re-pull up my email, and it worked just fine after that.

Another note... I don't know if it's my own internet connection at home, but Youtube won't work on for any video for the music videos I tried to watch.

Another note... If you're on safari (And I don't know if I'm just out of the loop, or whatever) But if you slide your fingers across the trackpad, left or right, then it will go back or forward to your previous web pages, instead of pressing the back/forward button.

Permalink Reply by NaKeisha Ekpe on October 26, 2011 at 3:41pm

Today at school my laptop worked fine.When i was using wifi outside of school, trying to join other networks a message popped up "unable to connect session timed out"

Permalink Reply by Lauren Johnson on October 26, 2011 at 10:08pm

Oct. 26- I wrote a paragraph yesterday, but I can't find it now, so I must not have sent it somehow. Yesterday I talked about how I couldn't figure out dropbox(but I'm sure that this is an effect of my inadequacy with computers). I also said that for a school assignment I had to do research by reading blogs, watching videos, and listening to podcasts. I didn't have any trouble with any of that.

For today, all I've done is a lot of work on google docs. I am also having a little trouble with my flash drive. When I plug it in, it doesn't show up on the desktop, which is confusing. It took me forever to find where my flash drive was on the computer so I could use it and safely eject it.

Permalink Reply by Sean Nash on October 26, 2011 at 10:38pm

Your other reply (from yesterday) is in the "comments" to the 2011-2012 group itself. I'd love it if you'd copy-paste that into this thread.

The flash drive not mounting on the desktop is likely a very easy thing to fix. In fact, I'm pretty sure where that setting is myself. ;) I'm glad you had the confidence (or determination) to root that out and find where the disk actually mounted. Keep 'em coming...

Permalink Reply by Cassandra Peek on October 27, 2011 at 7:31am

so the last couple days when i got on, all the stuff i downloaded in class popped up right when i logged in? Also i downloaded powerpoint and tried closing it out, but it wouldn't go away? Its like stuck the background or something.

Permalink Reply by Sean Nash on October 28, 2011 at 8:21am

Are you coming this afternoon? Those are just simple "getting familiar with the operating system" things. Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Cassandra Peek on October 28, 2011 at 7:56am

okay so i got to finally closing out of powerpoint! Every time i log on to the computer though it pops up all the applications immediately and i don't like it! how do you get these pop ups to go away?

Permalink Reply by Sean Nash on October 28, 2011 at 8:22am

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "pop ups." Can you do a full screenshot the next time it happens and post it here? (SHIFT-COMMAND-3)

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