Re: Teaching Again

As I posted here, Jordan and I taught IT Essentials again on Friday (yesterday). It went pretty smoothly. We didn’t have any technical glitches this time, thankfully. We used the overhead speaker with no problems.
Mrs. Villone wrote the lesson plan for this class. She created an “interactive activity,” where she wanted kids to come to the middle of the room (we sit in a semi-square) and pretend to be hardware that was trying to talk in a computer. For example, we had a keyboard that wanted to get something to show on the display. So the keyboard would tell the external data bus, who would tell the CPU, who would tell the memory, and so on. Unfortunately it didn’t go exactly as she had planned, and over all I’m not really sure anyone got anything out of it.
We showed another LabRats.tv video, this time on BIOS. I think that the class actually learned a lot from it, but it was slightly off topic, and not everyone paid attention.
My offer still stands to anyone who is thinking about dropping the class because you aren’t learning the material. Come see me, and I will make sure you understand the stuff.