Hi All!
Welcome to my new blog - written from surburban Melbourne on a cold and dreary day!
But where I'd really like to be is Namibia!
There are several reasons for this, which range from being totally logical to - maybe - just a little bit insane. But I will lay them out for you anyway:
1. It is hotter there. (Fun fact about Namibia - it has the oldest desert in the world).
2. I have never been there, so it would be very, very cool.
3. They have lions and tigers and ... wildebeest. Oh My!
4. I like to say Namibia.
5. They have schools.
6. They do NOT have interactive whiteboards!
Just like there are no cats in America, there are no interactive whiteboards in Africa - and I will write a song about it too!
Ladies and gents, I would like to introduce you to the most technologically incompetent teacher in THE WORLD. And that world may even include Africa! And teaching, it would seem, is becoming more and more about integrating technology in the classroom (ICT) - using Microsoft Office (which was fine until the bastards UPDATED IT!), Inspiration (mindmaps are for losers anyway - digital ones are just UNNECESSARY!!), webquests (Jam it!!) and hooking up all sorts of stupid cables to your utterly belligerant laptop so that it MIGHT play a movie but probably won't so YOU will have to call tech support.
And they'll be BUSY because there are so many teachers like little old me.
(p.s. This blog is in Courier and I DON'T want it to be and I can't figure out how to FIX it!!! GRRRRRRRR!)
Face it people: apart from personal use, technology sucks. Follw my blog and the exploits of a teacher who is not going to make it through the 21st century in a job!!!
And will probably move to Namibia!
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ReplyDeleteCan I, as a child of Africa, gently inform you that just as there are no cats in America, there are no tigers in Africa? That could also be a good song but I know that you won't feel like writing it because your heart will now be heavy.