Sunday, December 09, 2007


My PowerPoint Presentation should be right about here.

It took me about 4,000 years to get it done, or at least it felt like it. I couldn't get my laptop to work with the projector, then when I used another teacher's laptop we discovered she didn't have the appropriate cord to connect her new laptop to the projector. The next day she brought her old Notebook, and we had some issues getting my project to open on her computer from my pen drive.

And then, lo and behold, we discovered that my laptop worked just fine with her projector. I have no idea why it wouldn't work with the university projector. We assumed it was a Vista thing...

I had no problems getting my presentation uploaded to YouTube--you should be able to watch it from the above link. My left arm seems to have a mind of its own, and I kept having to bend down and deal with changing the slides because I didn't have a remote or a podium to set my laptop on.

Beyond that, the lighting and the sound are terrible. I had the camera as far back against the wall opposite me as it would go, but I still kind of wandered out of the scene. I hated being stuck it that spot. It would be cool to have a remote so I could do my normal "wandering and tripping over kids' backpacks. I also would have liked to have an audience...woulda been more fun.

I'm really annoyed about the lighting because my plaid slacks and brown sweater were very cute...all dressed up on Friday EVEN!