II. Semesters: Some Little Narratives

My first experience teaching in the computer classroom was exhilarating, yet chaotic. I decided to take my class to a computer classroom for the last three days of a summer semester, teach them basic html, and have them put up some of the essays they wrote over the semester into a website. I gave them a handout with the predominant codes all in the "proper order" so all they would have to do would be plug in the information. Simple, right? Well, needless to say I scrambled across the room non-stop trying to help five students at any given time for two hours straight, three days in a row. Total chaos. Although everything got done in the end, I opted for a more planned out, less chaotic approach to my next attempt. The thought of teaching every day in a classroom with rows of computers didn't particularly appeal to me, so I decided to spread out my time each week over three different rooms. On Mondays we met in a "regular" classroom. Desks all in a row, teacher's desk up front. On Wednesdays we met in a LAN room where the computers were organized on a perimeter model. On Fridays the class met in a WAN room with the computers in a traditional row format.