Friday, the Day the Lights Went Out.

OK, I expected Friday to be a little loony. It is Spirit Week, the week of a Full Moon, Costume Day, there is a low pressure front coming in and it is the day before the Halloween weekend. I didn't expect much production out of the kids.

Unfortunately, because of the change in the weather, it was also very windy. LaPorte, the mostly rural town in which Cache La Poudre Junior High School sits, is sort of at the edge of Fort Collins and is prone to "less than dependable" electricity sometimes. With the wind kicking up, we had four power outages during the day. For some reason, when the power goes out at the school, the network is down for about an hour or so. This means that we spent almost the entire day without access to computers or the network.

Any plans that I had of productivity today were quickly dashed.

We played some "get to know you" games, some trivia games, we talked, we drew pictures on the board, the kids played hangman, etc. For my 8th period class, we found a "Computer Video" for the kids to watch. It was actually pretty good, although a little dated. To make the day slightly productive in a learning sense, I had the kids write me a paragraph at the end of the movie, indicating three things that they learned. By the end of the day, the network seemed to be up.

All in all, sort of a "throw-away" day in the North Fork Lab.