notbooks

could not WAIT to get back to school this morning and get the kids started on their netbooks. plans. install sight word buddy program. teach kids how to save images to their share of the server. start planning our photostory projects. pulled the netbook cart to my room from its parking place in the media workroom before the kids arrived. they came in and were all talking about how they had told their parents about "their" computers. so much excitement. opened the cart and passed out the netbooks to partners. they popped them open and... "my battery light is on!" "my computer won't power up!" "what's wrong with my computer?" uh oh... plugged the cart in and popped open a netbook that was still attached. battery not charging. nothing. called the media specialist over. we were both flummoxed. this is the second cart! the first one was crashed and the netbooks wouldn't fit in the disfigured slots. this cart was totally new. but it won't charge ANY of the netbooks. cannot begin to describe the sadness in the room. the day the netbooks became notbooks.