We have been having some real issues in our first block class with slow internet and the wiki not being responsive at times. We cannot comment on each other's blog posts and were not able to do this last year either. The commenting problem is an Internet Explorer issue I feel sure. I am not sure about the speed of the internet and or the wiki being so slow for us.
My desktops are getting older but it seems like we have to wait, and wait, and wait for anything to load or save. So, we downloaded Google Chrome to see if it would help us out any with our situation. I do think that our commenting on the blogs will be solved with this. I am unsure about the speed however. At first I thought it might be that things might be being added to the wiki and it might be slowing us down. But, we have been in school for a month now and things have not improved. We are not on the wireless so the traffic should not be a problem. Our bandwidth was supposed to be increased and should be in good shape for us.
I know that the other Globaloria teacher is also having issues although she is using laptops and the wireless internet in her classroom at a later time in the day. So, we have both talked to our technology person at the school. My other class works on a wiki that is not the Globaloria class, and we are having problems in that class as well so I don't think that it is tied specifically to the Globaloria wiki. I do hope that a solution is found soon and we can move on. There is no bigger frustration than problems with technology software, hardware, and speed of the internet when your class depends on it.
Production can slow to a crawl and creativity is hindered as well. I am not ready to be placed in this position this year. Students should not have to fight this battle to complete their tasks in the class.
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