Today I had one of those mildly nervous moments- the first Scripture lesson of the year. Even though I've been teaching Scripture at Bellata for about 17 years now, the first one of the year still makes me a little nervous.
This year I decided to make use of the Smart Board in the class room. So, I left a few minutes early and of course got stuck behind a slow truck for most of the way and wasn't as early as I intended. Having asked permission from the teachers, I opened the magic cupboard and tried to locate the computer. I turned it on but nothing came up on the screen.
"What do I do now?" I thought. It wasn't a big drama if I couldn't get it going because all I had on it was a song in mp3 format and a presentation with the words on it, and I had taken the CD and printed words in case the technology failed. I thought it wise to just put a toe into the water to start off with and see how we can grow in using it during the year.
Anyway, I asked the teacher whom I knew just hasn't got into using it at all. But fortunately there was a student teacher there who was able to show me how to turn the projector on and get something up.
From there on it was plain sailing. We started the song and touched the screen to move forwards. The technology looks quite good and now I know that instead of taking masses of pictures and A3 sheets with words on I just have to make up the presentations and put them on to a USB stick.
Very nice!
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