Technology+Guidence

Technology Guidelines September-19-10 11:07 AM []
 * 1)  When working with technology treat what your working with care and respect, if yours or not. You should never try to force something to do what its not designed to. It will create frustration and block out all other open minded ideas. e.g. shoving a puzzle piece into a place that it does not place perfectly or a laptop respect it and do not drop it down on the table, and become physical when handling such fragile pieces of technology.
 * 2)  Allow yourself to have sufficient amount of space to work with whether building something, or just typing on your laptop you should organize your stuff in a chronological order, so that it is to your satisfaction.
 * 3)  If working with school computers, to not save your work onto the school hard drive. Use a USB stick / send it to yourself, or both that way if one crashes you have the other as back up. Anytime you are working with electronics there is a high possibility of losing all of your work within seconds. It will happen eventually to everyone, with or without a backed up system.
 * 4)  Always send yourself the work you have been developing, email doesn’t crash as easily as a hard drive or USB stick. Maybe emails can be afflicted with viruses but so can USB sticks the possibility of getting one on email is around the same as transferring it through the USB.
 * 5)  Be prepared for items vanishing, buy a back up system for your computer. It can be very useful. If you don’t have a back up system its not uncommon to lose drafts or finals within the day of the due date.
 * 6)  Be responsible for your work, if lost do it again and don’t be lazy. If time is short, don’t worry try to work out with your teacher a better time frame for the due date. Do not be afraid of the end result, when you lost your draft. Try and put in the effort your work deserves.
 * 7)  Be confident in what you are working with, don’t be afraid to ask for assistance from a peer or teacher. If the situation is unfamiliar become knowledgeable by observing how a classmate or teacher would work with the piece of technology.
 * 8)  Respect school policies and do not enter sites which are forbidden unless permitted by a teacher, during school hours. This will help you focus in class and wont get you off track when information is needed, and you are not paying attention. It is wise to follow rules and know what the teach is talking about because then during exams you wont have to study as hard but try to remember what you were taught in class.
 * 9)  Respect the work of others and do not try to harm the technology in which they are using. What does around comes around. Try to be carful and work with others to better each other instead of trying to beat them by intentionally messing their work up.
 * 10)  Do not download a software onto the laptop or computer which is larger then 500 MB, the computer will become slow and will hurt others in their projects when they are trying to create time management working, it will have to be removed so the computers speed is generally quite fast.