Dec 05 2008
Parents are interested in iTunes
I’m a lot happier with the homework situation. Homework submissions from my Higher Physics class have improved since my last post. Then, this week, several parents came to our school’s senior parent evening with questions about the new system and how it works. I suppose it shows that pupils have been talking about it at home.
Some parents were looking for reassurance that their son/daughter wasn’t wasting time sitting at a computer pretending to do homework, while others wanted to know more about iTunes so they could monitor the subscription themselves and know when an exercise is due. I certainly hadn’t anticipated that parents might be looking for ways to keep up with the work their children were being set.
It’s the last incident that I feel is the most significant though. I blogged a new exercise late last night just before going to bed. After lunch, I was informed by a pupil that she had updated her iTunes library over breakfast and had discovered a fault in the latest pdf file, it wouldn’t open. It turns out she watches the video solutions on the bus to school. She was right, the file had been corrupted and it’s been replaced.
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