Oh, your description is perfect. I was transported back to elementary school. Which is timely, for me.
I almost inherited a filmstrip projector -- the last one at the site -- at the middle school I worked at until this year. The most admirable and veteran of teachers was dispersing her lifetime of teaching materials, and a lot of me was tempted. I had it in my room, with a little case of ONE series of filmstrips, all about how to do literary analysis for middle school minds... though it was pretty hard core for the middle school minds I was dealing with, but then I realized that I have BECOME that techno-illiterate teacher who needed a student A/V assistant. I can work VCRs and DVDs, but that old skool technology? I COULD NOT figure out how to insert the filmstrip into the reel and get it to sync to the soundtrack and its lovely insistant beeeeeps. And none of the kids could figure it out either. I think they would have been mesmerized by the old-fashionedness of it, if I could have figured it out, but now they will never see anything less high tech than a DVD/VCR tape, or laptop PowerPoint projection. I sigh for them.
I almost inherited a filmstrip projector -- the last one at the site -- at the middle school I worked at until this year. The most admirable and veteran of teachers was dispersing her lifetime of teaching materials, and a lot of me was tempted. I had it in my room, with a little case of ONE series of filmstrips, all about how to do literary analysis for middle school minds... though it was pretty hard core for the middle school minds I was dealing with, but then I realized that I have BECOME that techno-illiterate teacher who needed a student A/V assistant. I can work VCRs and DVDs, but that old skool technology? I COULD NOT figure out how to insert the filmstrip into the reel and get it to sync to the soundtrack and its lovely insistant beeeeeps. And none of the kids could figure it out either. I think they would have been mesmerized by the old-fashionedness of it, if I could have figured it out, but now they will never see anything less high tech than a DVD/VCR tape, or laptop PowerPoint projection. I sigh for them.
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