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Highlighting New Links WHAT DO YOU DO IN THE COMPUTER LAB? By
Larry Ferlazzo “Experience is the name everyone gives to their
mistakes,” said the playwright Oscar Wilde. If that’s the case,
I’ve had a lot of “experience” when I’ve brought my students to
the computer lab. At times, I’ve used the computers as
“babysitting” services. I’ve brought students to the lab without
being sufficiently prepared and, as a result, have had to spend
a lot of time putting out “fires” and looking like I didn’t have
a clue about what I was doing. And I have gone to the lab
without having a back-up plan of what to do if the computers go
down and, of course, they’ve gone down. And these are just a few
of many instances that don’t necessarily portray me in the best
of light. But I think I’ve learned from them. Our school now has
a very successful after-school computer lab assisting English
Language Learners, which is part of the reason we were the Grand
Prize Winner this y