It's nice to have a fast laptop again
When I bought the Compaq 1200 notebook computer back in 2000, it was a top notch machine. In the years since then, it has become antiquated and slow, and I avoided using it if at all possible basically until about a week ago, when I added 128 MB of RAM to it and a wireless networking card.
Now, the wireless networking card has done me no good whatsoever thus far because here in Maine there are still very few places (my house included) that are hotspots. That said, I'm excited about maybe getting it to work this weekend in the Tech Center.
I mention all this because I've been off on my computer much of this past week and a half, plugging away in many remote environments and neglecting to charge up the home PC and point out my successes and failures on this blog. I know Elaine has felt a little out of the loop lately, and for that I apologize. I really should have been better about checking in at the end of the respective days to keep her and Mary Ann up to speed.
Speaking of Mary Ann, she recently noted that she didn't realize there was a patent pending on TeacherWeb. Because Connected Classrooms has temporarily dissolved until she and Jason (from Gravity Switch and The Persons School, for review) can get together and renovate, she doesn't really have a site with which to compare the patentable portions of TeacherWeb.
Which serves as a smashing segue into another mention, which is that I then asked Mary Ann for a listing of what she believes the strengths (and conversely, the weaknesses) of Connected Classrooms will be when it reemerges, whenever it is that it will reemerge.
This is important, because I'm trying to add a SWOT analysis to a document for this weekend's Capstone Fair, but I can't come up with strengths and weaknesses for a website that doesn't exist... well, I guess a significant weakness would be that it doesn't exist... but theoretically, it will, and I'll need to know what Mary Ann plans on offering that other websites won't.
Otherwise, the display board for my Capstone is coming along swimmingly, and I'm particularly proud of a certain graphic design I made featuring a school bus with webpages for a windshield. I'm so clever.
Now, the wireless networking card has done me no good whatsoever thus far because here in Maine there are still very few places (my house included) that are hotspots. That said, I'm excited about maybe getting it to work this weekend in the Tech Center.
I mention all this because I've been off on my computer much of this past week and a half, plugging away in many remote environments and neglecting to charge up the home PC and point out my successes and failures on this blog. I know Elaine has felt a little out of the loop lately, and for that I apologize. I really should have been better about checking in at the end of the respective days to keep her and Mary Ann up to speed.
Speaking of Mary Ann, she recently noted that she didn't realize there was a patent pending on TeacherWeb. Because Connected Classrooms has temporarily dissolved until she and Jason (from Gravity Switch and The Persons School, for review) can get together and renovate, she doesn't really have a site with which to compare the patentable portions of TeacherWeb.
Which serves as a smashing segue into another mention, which is that I then asked Mary Ann for a listing of what she believes the strengths (and conversely, the weaknesses) of Connected Classrooms will be when it reemerges, whenever it is that it will reemerge.
This is important, because I'm trying to add a SWOT analysis to a document for this weekend's Capstone Fair, but I can't come up with strengths and weaknesses for a website that doesn't exist... well, I guess a significant weakness would be that it doesn't exist... but theoretically, it will, and I'll need to know what Mary Ann plans on offering that other websites won't.
Otherwise, the display board for my Capstone is coming along swimmingly, and I'm particularly proud of a certain graphic design I made featuring a school bus with webpages for a windshield. I'm so clever.
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