A sink and an overhead?
There are so many strange things about the class I’m teaching this semester. Of course the teacher being strange is a given. Next is that I have four students. But that part is actually an awesome strange.
The strangest part is actually the room I’m teaching in. It has a TV with a VCR/DVD player. So that’s nice. But then it has a sink, with no paper towels so I’m not sure what to do with that. And it has an overhead projector. And that’s the limit of the technology in the room. Welcome to the 21st century folks!
There are white boards and I do have the cool clicky whiteboard markers. But me scribbling on a board is going to get real old real fast. Although I am quite good at it. I had to take a class on board writing in college. It wasn’t a whole class, but we did have to pass it off in three main handwriting styles.
So we’ve had to be a little creative.
The department has a small computer projector and so I’ve been loaned that for the semester. And I have my netbook. But then the trouble is getting everything situated right so my students and I don’t feel like we’re sitting front row at a movie theater.
Today I figured out how to use the overhead though!
The cart the overhead sits on works as a great extension cord to the middle of the room. Then I can set my computer and the projector on top of the overhead. And from that point in the class the projection is just the right size.
Brilliant! If I do say so myself.

I’ll let you know when I figure out what to do with the sink.













