Tech Tools & Professional Development – June 14-20
Back in March I went to Charleston for the Reading Research Symposium, and I took my laptop with me because the Holiday Inn Express I was staying in had free wireless access. It was marvelous. Then it stopped. I had no idea why. Called their tech support and was able to continue working through a cable…
I got home and the laptop no longer worked on my wireless hub/home network. So it wasn’t the Holiday Inn. Then, well, I procrastinated for a while.
This weekend I took my laptop to a local techie. He called me the next day and told me that the problem was solved. The problem, he’d discovered, was a wireless access switch on the front of the computer. It had been moved somehow to the “off” position. Thirty bucks for a half-hour’s work (the smallest billing increment the guy uses).
To be fair, he said it took him about 15 minutes to figure it out. So, I’ve now paid money to have a highly trained computer tech show me how to slide this little switch back and forth. And I learned that my laptop (and presumably many other laptops) have a switch for turning wifi access on and off.
Eleven years of college and I still learn something new everyday…
