Today started well – washing done early, blue sky, sun, good church
service. I’m working on some training material for our teachers that we will be
starting on Tuesday. The biggest challenge of putting it all together is
avoiding my usual tendency to try and get too much done in one go. I’ve decided
to focus on two strategies to help us in our quest for creating amazing
mathematicians in our schools. Neither of them are rocket science really. One
involves digging really deeply into test results to see where youngsters are
struggling and the other focuses on a back to basics maths ‘boot camp’ approach
to the pupils who have the most difficulty. All was going well until I decided
to try resurrecting a laptop to use on the training day.
I have probably said before how much I enjoy putting spreadsheets
together to make data management easier. A couple of years ago were fortunate
enough to receive funding for five laptops for the teachers and pupils to use. As
is the case with all technology it’s alright as long as it works. This
particular machine has, in the last six months or so, picked up a virus which
is making it very difficult for me to hook it up to the Internet. Viruses are
relatively easy to get rid of if you have got a good antivirus programme and
reliable access to the Internet. Unfortunately neither of these things hold
true for this laptop. Tonight it has been very difficult to get any kind of
connection to the Internet, making it impossible to do anything about the
problem. I’m hoping that tomorrow the situation might be better. I have a
horrible feeling that the only thing to do with it in the end will be to
restore it to a previous incarnation and re-install all the software. A tedious
job at best and a nightmare if the restore doesn’t work and I have to rebuild
it from scratch.
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