Jon called this problem clickitis. The student in the front row even accidentally erased all his files on the network server. Other students suffering from clickitis might spend too much time off task. Giving students free surfing time might help appease the urge to wander. We spent so much time making that Web scavenger hunt activity last year, and when we used it this year, half of the URLs had changed.
Information changes rapidly on the Web.
We are back to feeling like we live on an island. We thought the Internet connection was down, but we later found out that our Internet server, which also handles our external e-mail, crashed. Our U.S.-based project partner probably won't get the students' keypal replies in time for the class. We forgot that daylight savings time started this week in the United States, so we missed our project partner class by an hour. The free chat room we've been using doesn't make communicating any easier anyway.