Comments | marinarusalka: I have discovered the ultimate embarrassment.

marinarusalka

I have discovered the ultimate embarrassment.

Apr 10, 2009 08:21

The ultimate embarrassment is having 30 people you're supposed to be teaching all sit and watch while you UTTERLY FAIL to get the hookup from your laptop to the projector to work. As an added bonus, you can get stuck improvising a 40-minute blackboard talk on how to do on-line research for primary sources instead of giving your carefully prepared ( Read more... )

school

Comments 7

amorettea April 10 2009, 15:48:49 UTC

Ah, the joys of Powerpoint. Something ALWAYS goes wrong, even if you tested it milliseconds before the presentation.

marinarusalka April 10 2009, 15:52:02 UTC

It wasn't even Power Point! I was going to bring up a web browser and actually walk them through the steps of a proper search. Only, that didn't happen.

yahtzee63 April 10 2009, 15:53:05 UTC

Aw, man. Hang in there. And you are far from the first person to have A/V problems giving a presentation.

vastian_steel April 10 2009, 16:06:39 UTC

Don't fret. You certainly aren't the only one. It happened to me once - in a room full of secretaries and professionals.

I remembered sweating through the whole troubleshooting procedure.

persephone_kore April 10 2009, 16:43:38 UTC

Oh dear.

One of the last seminars I attended, the guy got everything set up and working about 15 minutes early, and at the point of actually giving the talk, the visuals started spontaneously disappearing.

Pretty much everybody who gives such presentations learns that this kind of thing happens. The fact that you could recover and do the chalk talk is a good thing.

ljn317 April 11 2009, 12:29:27 UTC

That's why I hate "smart classrooms," they often fail to work.

Don't worry about it, it happens a lot. It's great that you were able to recover and give a talk the old fashioned way.