As I try to digitize my classroom as much as possible I find myself completely dependent on the tech for my daily presentation of my lessons. I use an LCD projector which is hooked up to a mimio board that acts as an interactive workspace. I absolutely love it. I can show a class step by step how to set up a wiki or a blog and also have them come up and show me a new web tool they found. Then, the light bulb on my LCD burns out, OMG!!!! Now what am I going to do, I have a video planned for class. Yikes! I go back to the textbook and muddle through the class, all the while panicking about my LCD.
I have only had the LCD for about a year. I have taught without it and a mimio. When I lost both (it was only for a day) I felt that I had to rework my plans. The video got put off until a later date, I had planned to start a class in blogs and did that while circling the room continuously to make sure everyone was supposed to be where I wanted them to be. I was a mild disaster. Miraculously, most got their blogs set up.
That night I was with my daughter at her swimming lesson and it occurred to me that I could have used the TV with the DVD player hooked up to it. This piece of technology is stored about 20ft away from my desk. I was dumbfounded. I could not believe that it didn't even occur to me to use a TV, which I used for 2 years before receiving my LCD and mimio. Sometimes technology does make you dumb, I proved it (sadly) this week.
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