Using Computer Lab as Overflow

[Madeleine Ann Dickerson <polopony@IWAYNET.NET>]

Dear Colleagues,
     I am enlisting your suggestions again regarding using a high school
computer lab as an overflow area when all library computers are in use.
Our problems are: 1. The business teacher (who has typewriters instead
of computers in her classroom) brings groups of her students to the
computer lab. Although she "guesses" how many "extra computers" will be
left after her students use them and makes up a weekly chart of "availability,"
it never seems to work out. Students who have been sent from the library
to the lab return to the library because the lab is full also. 2. We asked
for lab supervision for the periods that the business teacher is not in the
lab so that the lab remains available to students. We received someone
who was "available" but this person has no computer background. Basically,
I was told to teach him computer skills. What can we do?
One partial solution that we are pressing for is replacing the typewriters
with computers, thus "freeing up" the lab, but this doesn't solve the
problem of having someone computer literate there. We don't know if buying
more computers will happen anytime soon because of finances.

Thanks.
Madeleine Dickerson,
High School LMS

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