Oh what a day it has been, kinda sucked in many a way.
Period 1, Year 13 web design students. Get them to design a flash splash screen to introduce the year 13 web design class. hey, they did web design including flash design last year, thought i would see where they were up to, what they knew or didn't, the case being on the didn't.
Now at the beginning of this year there was issues of getting flash to run on these computers, I was informed that this had been sorted out, I feel a tui ad coming on here. Of course when it was tested at the time it worked, now more than 30 days later the issues are more problematic, what the solution I now know at the time was use the trial verison, I now have to give out the macromedia studio code to the students to get this going, something I never want to do.
Period 2, Year 9, oh sweet year 9's, always busy and wanting to work. yeah right, try half the class not being able to log in, no idea what is happening here, there accounts are shut up tighter than a, a, a, a, we will leave it here. The only way to fix these accounts is to do a reset profile on them. Kind of a bummer when you have 15 accounts to do as well as password resets. But once we got over that hurdle away they went for the last 20 minutes of the lesson.
Period 3, Year 12 programming, yes, something they can get there teeth into, gamemaker, a nice little software program to get them top do some real programming, well in some ways drag and drop and get to know a little about how programs are setup and made.
I have all the handouts ready, however the exercise files they need I did not have on the virtual hard disk. Got that sorted and the profile resets done. Get them into it and away, and then they go and run the final version. It stops with an error, not enough memory, oh well, have a look, yeap 256 meg of ram, however it wasn't that memory it was the graphics memory, it was set to 8 meg of VRAM, gamemaker needs 32 meg of VRAM, Virtual PC 2004 neither Virtual PC 2007 supports more than 16... so I have no idea on how to get past this at the moment, I have tried and tried and tried but why didn't they set it up as what I asked for at the beginning of the year, a local partition to run gamemaker and c#, oh the C# is another story.
Period 4, Year 11, Easy, some password resits and profile resets, I am now starting to get annoyed at this. Seems that they cannot do excel for too longer a period.
Period 5, Year 13 programming, sit them down ad keep them quiet, got then to carry on with there individual assessments in robotics today which are due at the end of the week. Man some students see it as a social class.
Period 6. Year 9, two password resets and trying to get gamemaker running. Hey they are working out of a book at the moment, i know it is not good practice but I need to get this running to do my other senior classess.
And no books from Craig printing today, hopefully tomorrow, I want to see what harry the southern man tuatara is like.
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