Outsidetheblocks

Tech is going to tech. It's the creeping nightmare that keeps us all awake at night: "Will we be able to do the techy thing tomorrow as planned?" In my day we didn't have much tech... typically just the film projector or later on, a cassette deck or a TV on a stand with a VCR. When they failed, we were told to carry on with whatever we were doing before... or frequently just told to put our heads on our desk and stay quiet for the next 30 minutes! Although the projector overheating and melting the film spool did have a certain amount of entertainment factor!  Even today, the thought of my favourite cassettes being chewed into oblivion by my tape deck still terrifies me more than any temporary tech outage.  But, I digress.  I've been involved with tech in a professional capacity long enough to know it's not a matter of if your tech is going to "bork", but when and how bad... and when it does, classroom management goes into overdrive as you struggle to...