Re: [LM_NET] Response to Vent: Teacher Joke

[Suzanne Ng <suzanne@WHATEXIT.COM>]

In the early 1990's,  my undergraduate program required a class  as a  
part of the "Junior Block" for Elem Ed majors.   One was called  
media.  We learned about 12-15 different pieces of equipment, and as  
the final exam, we had to demonstrate we could use at least 12?  
properly.     I remember some of them were a reel-to-reel tape  
recorder, a 16 mm projector,  program a VCR,  an overhead projector,  
a mimeograph maker ( with those purple dittoes), an opaque projector,  
and a few others...  They said it was because many of the schools  
we'd be teaching in ( if we stayed in the area) could still have  
those machines!
On Apr 10, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Toni Koontz wrote:
> The funny thing is - way back in the late '70's ( wow, I know I am  
> getting old) - when I was taking one of my early classes toward my  
> bachelor's, I had a class called Media Tech.  It was a required  
> class, no less, that covered: how to use, clean and troubleshoot a  
> lot of the equipment we were using. Of course,  at the time this  
> consisted of, opaque projector, overhead projector, slide  
> projector, tape recorder, slide maker (a camera on a rigid tripod  
> arrangement that took a picture of whatever you wanted the slide to  
> be using slide film, which after developing, had to be mounted in  
> slide cases), lettering machine. We had projects using each of the  
> machines, had to demonstrate that we knew how to use it and clean  
> it, had to make cards listing how to use it and on the other side  
> how to clean it.
>
> When we got computers at our school, because I  had them at home, I  
> became the computer tech - and had to set them up, tear them down,  
> clean, etc. Then I taught a number of my fellow college classmates  
> how to do it.
>
> So, at one time they did teach a lot of stuff in college that they  
> don't do now.

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Suzanne Ng, Librarian
South Mountain Elem. School
South Orange, NJ 07079
email: sng@somsd.k12.nj.us
http://www.southmountain.somsd.k12.nj.us
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