Week 3 Snow Week

Week 3 or as some of my students called it snow week was very hectic at first. I was a little nervous about teaching on shortened periods and how the kids would react to having a day off then a 2 hr delay. They acted as if it was a Monday, a boring slow start to the week, and to top it Mrs. Wiscount shows up at first period, by now I'm so relaxed as you could imagine. However everything seemed to go very well, the lesson went smooth even though the students were not energetic at all. So i would have to say the most valuable thing for the week was being able to teach in shortened periods, also seeing how students react to having days off and 2 hr delays. It shows that I need to engage them more than a normal day.
I started teaching 2 classes this week instead of one due to the fact I was only able to teach one lesson the previous week. I was nervous about it but yet excited, I like a challenge and it was a little bit. Having to juggle two courses and perfecting them is something that wasn't easy at first but I got the hang of it and it became much easier.
I did however run into a problem like Chris did while teaching web design. I was teaching the students how to put the HTML tags in notepad, save then bring it up in Internet explorer, well it wasn't working, the computer system in the high school wouldn't allow the students accounts for some reason bring it up in Internet explorer. I was going nuts, kids started playing games, complaining when i told them to get off, they kept saying, "well I'm done". I said I don't care, if your done help one of your classmates until we figure this thing out, by the end of the period everything worked out but to say the least I wanted to throw one of the computers out the window. This was probably the one aspect I would like to change this week, I should have stopped took a deep breath and said to the students, "Now lets trouble shoot this together, whoever can get it to work will get bonus points" because honestly I had no idea what to do.