Posted on 18 April 2011 at 15:31h

My first year student were doing a design practical the other day and some of them needed to use the datalogger to record their measurements. I find this is a time when having a good selection of sensors and data loggers really pays off. That's why I make sure that all the students know how to use them and what sort of sensors we have. Anyway over the years I have found that students are very quick at finding their way around new bits of software and once they have used data studio and loggerpro once or twice become quite proficient at using all of the features and even find ways of doing things that I didn't know about. But the thing that I don't understand is why, if they are so good at remembering these details, can't they remember that the cables used to connect the charger to the mains hang on the back of the cupboard door at the front of the class, the dataloggers are in the cupboard on the other side and the USB connectors are in the drawer below the dalaloggers.