Ok, so I’ve been fairly quiet on the teaching-technology quandary, mainly because I haven’t really needed to use it – so I’ve had a blissful week in which teaching is a joy because I get to do the things I love:
1. Talk about books.
2. Get students to do activities on butcher’s paper (ok. No I didn’t – but it was a fantastic activity and I am going to do it again one day soon. NEVER using Inspiration again!!!)
3. Talk some more about books.
There was other stuff to, because am a multi-faceted teacher even without stupid technology, but my point is: No technology = no desire to move to Namibia!
But, it would seem I don’t even need to teach in order to hear the call of the wild. I have another dilemma.
Introducing the third horseman of the Apocalypse: Windows 7, come on down (with all of your upgraded programs! To be fair, I’ve just this moment been told that Word 2007 isn’t actually a blood relative of Windows 7 – he’s more of a groupie).
I hate groupies.
I ask you, why does everything have to change just when I’ve worked out how to use it the first time? I’m no computer genius, obviously, but I’ve been typing since Grade 5, took – for all intents and purposes - typing as a VCE subject (ok, it was more than that but that’s all I remember how to do of the subject I got an A+ in when my Indicative Grade was a C+).
Word 2007 is just a labyrinth. Where in the hell are text boxes, for example? It’s true, I wasn’t adept at using them with Windows 2003, but now I don’t even know where they are! And when I open a document and it’s split into 2, or 4 – yikes – and there’s no clear option of consolidating, then I just want to break things.
Seriously. This Laptop with its Windows 7 and awful Groupies better have some serious health insurance.
Maybe the computer version of HBA will pay for me to go to Namibia?
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