Despite there being no cats, the mice are all gone...

A danger, Ive found, with ICT in the classroom is the lack of reliability and trust you can have in the quality of the equipment. I had a last minute room swap to a computer lab, so I completely scrapped my planned lesson and re-planned, as I knew there was no way I was going to get a room full of year 7s to focus on reading when they had computers within touching distance, to include the new availability of technology. However, upon entering the lab, the first thing I noticed was that not one single computer possessed a mouse. Turns out mice had been confiscated due to excessive vandalism and property damage. The students were supposed to have their own. This, of course, meant about one third of them actually did. Fortunately there was a class set of mice that I could borrow. Shortly, however, I discovered that half of those mice outright didn't work, and  the rest were either missing buttons, had holes in them, or were just downright unreliable. Needless to say the lesson progressed rather slowly when students only had their keyboards with which to navigate the internet.