Saturday, March 15, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Logins and Passwords
Oh, the woes......I have had to pray for an exorbitant amount of patience in working through 10 students with learning challenges getting logged onto a particular website/app. I believe I am not alone in my personal frustration in remembering the plethora of "magic words" I need to keep stored in my long term memory for quick and easy reference. But now it is not my own that I need to call to mind at a moments notice, my students for some unknown reason believe that I too should be able to remember their passwords. Yikes! Spikes! At one a breif low point I was ready to send all of the iPads back to the DO.
I started out with good intentions. The ones we all have in setting our own logins and passwords...I will just make them all the same with some sort of easy pattern to remember. Ooops, the kids had to have at least one capital. Ooops again, on the next website they had to have more than 5 letters. 3rd strike and I was out. The next one had to have a special character. I wanted to throw in the towel.
But once we all FINALLY got logged on we were learning and having fun all at the same time. Now giving up now.
After my second week in to the password journey and sharing my woes with a colleague, she seemed to have a simple solution. Have an index card for each student and they access it each time they need it to remember how to get in. So each created their own card. I thought I was getting real smart. Not so easy. It seems that it is harder to copy passwords than one might imagine. "They have to be exact," I said with emphasis over and over again.
I did learn that I had to be diligent to keep a document of all the kids with all their logins and passwords and without fail keep it updated.
Now 8 weeks into the iPads and perfect index cards (May they never get misplaced.) I have yet to have a login session without at least one student exclaim, "It's not working." My reply, "Try again, each letter has to be exact." I am waiting with baited breath for the time when it comes off without a hitch. I will keep you posted.
To day we had a great learning experience creating "Telegamis" about the explorers we were studying. More on that later.
Oh and one more thing. Check my 5th grade math work blog as well. It is simply called Math Work.
http://foesmathwork.blogspot.com/
I started out with good intentions. The ones we all have in setting our own logins and passwords...I will just make them all the same with some sort of easy pattern to remember. Ooops, the kids had to have at least one capital. Ooops again, on the next website they had to have more than 5 letters. 3rd strike and I was out. The next one had to have a special character. I wanted to throw in the towel.
But once we all FINALLY got logged on we were learning and having fun all at the same time. Now giving up now.
After my second week in to the password journey and sharing my woes with a colleague, she seemed to have a simple solution. Have an index card for each student and they access it each time they need it to remember how to get in. So each created their own card. I thought I was getting real smart. Not so easy. It seems that it is harder to copy passwords than one might imagine. "They have to be exact," I said with emphasis over and over again.
I did learn that I had to be diligent to keep a document of all the kids with all their logins and passwords and without fail keep it updated.
Now 8 weeks into the iPads and perfect index cards (May they never get misplaced.) I have yet to have a login session without at least one student exclaim, "It's not working." My reply, "Try again, each letter has to be exact." I am waiting with baited breath for the time when it comes off without a hitch. I will keep you posted.
To day we had a great learning experience creating "Telegamis" about the explorers we were studying. More on that later.
Oh and one more thing. Check my 5th grade math work blog as well. It is simply called Math Work.
http://foesmathwork.blogspot.com/
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