Students are taking the quarterly student survey, so I thought I would use this time to post to my blog.

Well, the first winter storm blew in on Wednesday afternoon, knocking out power to our school and about 35,000 other local customers of AEP.

Because of that, we were closed on Thursday, but school reopened on Friday. Unfortunately, every computer in the school had to be shut down and the servers reset and then we did rolling boot ups at various parts of the school. Computer service was restored late Friday, so today we are catching up on business.

The end result of the interruption last week,  is that things don't always go as planned. I had originally planned to do the student surveys on Thursday. Then, thought that I'd get the student surveys done on Friday when we reopened. Now we're doing them today, but we're getting "server is busy signals" on the Surveymonkey site, which is preventing some of the students from loading the survey.  Hopefully, as the students who logged on first finish their surveys, others will be able to log on and we'll get them all done today.

When the computers were shut down on Friday, I had the game design students meet in their teams and start to continue their game ideas, and what direction each team will pursue. So, although we couldn't do the survey or mini game, all was not lost. 

My goal is to have the mini game done by the Christmas break so in January, we will be able to begin the game creation process. 

That's the plan. The kids are ready and anxious to get started and so I am.