Gross, Snails!

It was easy to see the slime dripping from bottom of the computer like they were snails on a mission. As we all know, that is not a fast thing. Nor were the computers at Schuylkill Valley High School. The students were so bored with their vocabulary quizzes at classzone.com. They would answer a question and then wait for about three minutes until the next question would pop up on the screen. Eyes started googlin' all over the place just out of boredom. Computer screens became drum sets, and heads beat against the desks. It was a regular ensamble of percussion! Thanks to the convenient phones in every classroom in the high school, Mrs. Koller was able to call those swindlers who provided this quiz. The tech support guy filled her with lies and bush beatings. But all was well, for with luck the class finished on time, well most of them. There were a couple runts still straggling behind, but don't you worry! Just a quick sign of their pass books and they were on their way!

A Dastardly Deed to be Sure

There is an enemy afoot, and it smells a bit fishy. What is it do you ask? A VHS recorder... The equipment, old and fragile, seemed to be working quite nicely until I put my tape into the VCR. AHHH!!! Picture was bouncing all over the place. Reluctantly I watched myself teach as my shirt and tie blurred in and out of visibility. Sadly I cannot blame Nesalziones, though I would very much like to. He did try to do some wonderful work. Fault should not be given to the artist for a broken easel.
Strangely that devil of a machine calmed down for my second take and made a masterpiece of my lesson. Beautiful shots done by Sean "Steven Speilburg" Andrew, five stars. As for Albright College technology services, I award you no points... and may God have mercy on your soul.

Speaking in Tongues

A program that tells the speaker if he or she has a Spanish or American accent? GET OUTA TOWN!!! It's true ladies and gents, the Schuylkill Valley Middle school has a program that, through the super duper powers of voice recognition, can actually tell the speaker how accurate his or her accent is. There were obviously some flaws however. A native speaker of Spanish was detected as more American than most of the non-native speakers in the class. It proved to be quite a spectical in the technologically advanced classroom. All of those youngsters were bubbling with enthusiam to try that intense tool of techno teaching!

Don't you be wearing that hat in school boy!

Now that guy is excited about teaching!

Nelsalziones (my roommate and fellow teacher to be) and I used some killer Nikon brand digital cameras in EDU 401 the other day. The things are so easy to use, and it is obvious that they take some stellar pictures. Linking those bad boys up to the computers posed a problem though. The actual Nikon program didn't register the data, but don't worry there is always another way to get through the maze that is a Windows equipt Dell computer.

Techno Teaching

Computers! Phones! Overheads! Technology is all over the place in Profesora Koller's classroom. Attendence is taken on the computer. Tests are taken in a computer lab. Bulletins are sent through a Local Area Network to nab any players of the good ol' game of hooky. And the overhead is used as often as a carpenter uses wood ladies and gentlemen. The students walk into the classroom, and BAM!!! LIGHTS OFF!!! OVERHEAD ON!!! But don't you dare fall asleep students!