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I've once again been using the Chrome books in my room.  One class is using them for research, the other classes are merely doing word processing, and the after school group is using Feedly and Blogger.  Weird things have been happening especially with online websites and easybib.com.  After sending several emails to the school tech guy and media director, I started taking screenshots and mailing the screenshots to show the problems.  Since the problems are intermittent, it's a bit difficult to explain.   Last night, as my after school kids were getting ready to get their computers, the district tech guy comes.  He doesn't say anything to me and randomly starts opening the computers.  It seems as he's not versed in the problem because he doesn't seem to be opening the browsers.  When I tell my kids to be polite and careful as they get their computers, he backs away from the cart.  I ask if I can assist, and he still doesn't ask me any questions.  He does, however, inform me that he's going to watch for problems.  Immediately, a problem arises, and I point him to the problematic computer.  After looking at it for mere seconds, he tells me everything is ok if one merely hits refresh.  I try to stay patient and tell him that this doesn't always work, and sometimes one literally needs to hit refresh ten times.  In my frustration, I mention that this could be a major problem next year when every student us on a Chrome Book.  He assures me it's merely a browser problem, and they will probably have updates to fix it.  Yep, he told me Chrome browser is a problem for the Chrome Books.  After he left, I sent an email to our school tech guy saying I wasn't satisfied with the district guy's answer.  I also stated that it was a bit ironic that Chrome supposedly doesn't work on the Chrome Books.  Oh, did I mention that I asked if we could use another browser with the Chrome Books earlier in the week and was told no?

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LH said…
You know I love technology, but I get so frustrated with problems like this. I've been trying to make a glogster this week and everything takes forever to upload. If I had a classroom of peeps trying to make glogsters, there would be so much wasted time. A thing I don't like. Unless i'm on sabbatical.
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