AV Rule #1:
If you plug the TV into the cart, and you plug the cart into the cart,
the TV will not work. ;-) Heard that in library school, from one of
the profs.
Always approach a teacher's tech problems like a reference interview
with a small child-- be kind, patient, and ask very specific questions.
Like a small child, they often don't have the vocabulary to even
describe the problem very well:
"The TV's broken," means "where is the power button?"
"That video camera is a useless piece of junk," means "I forgot to
charge the battery."
"I need a new VCR," means "What do you mean it won't record without a
tape in it?"
"The computer turned my final exam into gibberish," means "I don't know
the difference between Microsoft Works and Microsoft Word."
"The computer ate my files," means "I stored the floppy at the bottom of
my briefcase, under a teacher's edition textbook and a jelly donut."
"The server is down," means "1 web page won't come up" (some of them
think the entire Internet is contained in the library file server).
Some of the best teachers I know are complete idiots when it comes to
technology. Just using an overhead is leap for a few of them. Take
deep, slow breaths and tell yourself you are doing it for the kids, not
the teacher (while imagining the teacher's head being plunged into
Mark's cool, mountain stream ;-))
----
Tony Doyle, Librarian
Livingston High School, Livingston, CA
tdoyle@muhsd.k12.ca.us
<Http://www.lhs.muhsd.k12.ca.us/library/index.htm>
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get
people to stop reading them."-- Ray Bradbury
Mark Williams wrote:
> At 01:48 PM 10/5/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Does anyone get as frustrated as I do of these teachers that can't hook
>> up a simple VCR????????????
>
>
>
> I used to... but now I am calm....I am peaceful.....I can clearly see
> the face of that teacher who plugged the power strip back into itself
> (and could not understand why neither the TV nor the VCR would work) as
> I hold them under the cool, clear mountain stream in my personal quiet
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