School started like normal this morning; students at their lockers talking about their weekends, showing off bruises and scrapes from the ski hill, or showing off new purchases from the mall. At 7:53 am students started dispersing to go to their Advisory classes and at 7:55 am the bell rang and announcements began on the PA system. The student council students I advise during advisory worked somewhat diligently on their spirit week posters and left to hang them around 8:10 am. At 8:15 am the doors slammed shut when the power went off. It was an interesting experience. The students who were in the hall came into the room laughing at how the doors closing had scared them. (Turns out our doors are on an emergency system that requires electronic magnets to hold them open.) The power was off for an entire hour and we suffered a little in the aftermath of the blackout.
Why we need electricity:
• Light for reading, not bumping into things, etc… especially in rooms without windows.
• Keeping refrigerators and freezers running.
• Heat… it got cold after an hour.
• Electric sensors for the bathroom sinks.
• Computers to take attendance, do grades, and check the news to see why the power is out ;)
• Copy Machines
• Turns out telephones
• PA system
• Sewing machines, my students didn’t appreciate having to manually control their machines with their handwheels.
• Irons… “Ok guys today we are going to learn how to finger press”… “Say what?!”
My computer class didn’t have a network by the time class started so they were given paper and pencil and after some discussion they wrote a list of 25 things we use computers for. They then needed to justify the use of computers and how important they are or they could argue that we don’t need them. Amazingly it took some of them the entire 45 minute class period to come up with as few as 25 things.
I don’t care what any of them reasoned out… I NEED my computer and electricity.
2 comments:
I'll probably ask you this before I see you, but how DID that work out with not having windows in your classroom? At least we had the light of day? What did you do?
Kristy
We had one emergency light that lit the classroom side of my room and one emergency light that lit the lab. It was just enough light to see each other so we wouldn't bump into each other.
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