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Try it Out

One thing I've learned is to TRY EVERYTHING OUT before you do it!  


Our new initiative this year was to try out Classroom Dojo.  Our plan was to have our students bring their chromebooks on the first day of LLI, so they could sign up on Classroom Dojo right then and there.  Thank GOODNESS one of my TAs suggested we try it out ourselves first, because it didn't work!  Had our students come to LLI on the first day with their chromebooks, it would have been a disaster!  Plus, we are each in different locations in the building, so we would have been walking back and forth just to tell each other that Dojo wasn't working.  What a mess it would have been!

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