Day three – projection disasters again!
SO the projectors failed completely today so I never got the lecture up and running electronically. I gave an old fassioned chalk talk, which worked well. I love doing the chalk thing!! So simple, so elegant, so easy to do.
It is frustrating when I see the potential of the technology, but when something goes wrong, all I see is the flaws. We gotta get this sorted. I need consistancy and Faith that the technology will work every time.
Here is my hypothesis, the router is getting overheated in some way or collecting rf current which craps it out. It seems to work for about 90 minutes total before crapping out, then it has to be turned off and allowed to cool, before it will work again. Today, two professors used it, the first one from 9:10 to 9:45 before crapping out. She shut it down. The next prof had it turned on at 10:15, and it ran until 10:55, before crapping out, I tried to log in at 11:05 and if never would start. I let it sit for 10 minutes, still nothing. . . . I tried it this afternoon, and it started!!
Hmm!!
What I ended up doing is record a condensed lecture with audio after class and saving that on my computer to send to students later on.
General Postings, Hardware Issues, Software Issues | Andrew French | 
August 27, 2008 5:37 pm
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