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Sippo
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« Reply #20955 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 08:52:36 »

The internet.

So much is reliant on it nowadays.

Had staff saying they can't teach as the internet went down. All of 10 minutes I might add.

Gone are the days of blackboards and books.

Any decent teacher would have a back up and not be so reliant on technology.
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« Reply #20956 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 09:45:45 »

The internet.

So much is reliant on it nowadays.

Had staff saying they can't teach as the internet went down. All of 10 minutes I might add.

Gone are the days of blackboards and books.

Any decent teacher would have a back up and not be so reliant on technology.

Count your blessings.
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« Reply #20957 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 18:35:51 »

The internet.

So much is reliant on it nowadays.

Had staff saying they can't teach as the internet went down. All of 10 minutes I might add.

Gone are the days of blackboards and books.

Any decent teacher would have a back up and not be so reliant on technology.
You should provide better redundancy with a secondary internet connection. Problem solved for all.
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« Reply #20958 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 18:40:51 »

The internet.

So much is reliant on it nowadays.

Had staff saying they can't teach as the internet went down. All of 10 minutes I might add.

Gone are the days of blackboards and books.

Any decent teacher would have a back up and not be so reliant on technology.

The same in my work. If for whatever reason emails are down there's uproar with people moaning they can't contact clients. Whats wrong with picking up the phone and calling them?
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« Reply #20959 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 19:00:14 »

I thought i'd return to work on Monday, the doctor had other ideas. Another FOUR fucking weeks! Jesus Christ is there no end to this groundhog day nightmare.
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« Reply #20960 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 19:01:30 »

You should provide better redundancy with a secondary internet connection. Problem solved for all.

We have, but if our ISP issues that line is pretty useless.
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« Reply #20961 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 19:34:15 »

My day, it's in the don't understand category.

Woke up at 5.30am for an interview at Teddington TV Studios, aced it. On my way back home I get a call from an employer inviting me for a 2nd stage interview. Why is this unusual? Well I had left the first stage interview on Tuesday because they had me waiting 2 hours past my interview time, I'd had enough and left (but not before giving a quickfire presentation to the PA and telling her to personally hand in my CV and presentation notes to the right people). Some American bigwig from the company calls me up in the evening and says he loved the balls I showed to do that, and invites me for a 2nd stage interview on Monday morning, 3 days before the rest of the 2nd stage interviews. I have another interview tomorrow and the way things have been going I'm hoping for 3 job offers on Monday afternoon.

At this point I'm feeling on top of the world but then it all goes downhill, I get home to find the dog has pissed all over my designer trainers, ok I say to myself, perfect days don't happen. Then I go off to the supermarket to buy some food and on my way back I see someone's cat get run over on my road. It's in a pretty bad way so I ring the RSPCA, a crowd starts to gather at the bottom of the road, and 45 minutes later the RSPCA bloke turns up and takes it away.
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« Reply #20962 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 19:38:59 »

The internet.

So much is reliant on it nowadays.

Had staff saying they can't teach as the internet went down. All of 10 minutes I might add.

Gone are the days of blackboards and books.

Any decent teacher would have a back up and not be so reliant on technology.

To be fair if you have planned a whole lesson around say, a short film clip or something it can be a right pain in the ass
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« Reply #20963 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 19:57:44 »

To be fair if you have planned a whole lesson around say, a short film clip or something it can be a right pain in the ass

I would have thought an ability to think on one's feet and improvise would be a key skill in the tool box of any pedagogue
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« Reply #20964 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 20:02:49 »

To be fair if you have planned a whole lesson around say, a short film clip or something it can be a right pain in the ass

But a good teacher wouldn't rely on technology. Yes times have changed, but they should always have a backup.
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« Reply #20965 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 20:08:32 »

The same in my work. If for whatever reason emails are down there's uproar with people moaning they can't contact clients. Whats wrong with picking up the phone and calling them?

Everyone is on Voip, so both are down. Its utter madness doing everything online. I keep £300 quid in a box for when it all goes down. I'll be king of Surrey Wink
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« Reply #20966 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 21:05:33 »

But a good teacher wouldn't rely on technology. Yes times have changed, but they should always have a backup.

Yep, pretty ready to download the clips you need. Either that or think on your feet.
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« Reply #20967 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 21:15:34 »

To be fair if you have planned a whole lesson around say, a short film clip or something it can be a right pain in the ass

Exciting times as a kid seeing this wheeled in to class.



I remember one history lesson where we watched Blackadder for an hour, brilliant.
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« Reply #20968 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 21:27:32 »

Yeah we used to watch quite a bit of Blackadder in history at school. I also remember watching Dogtanian on one of them but that was primary school
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« Reply #20969 on: Thursday, October 8, 2015, 21:44:40 »

We had a brilliantly mental science teacher at Kingsdown called Mr Edmundson, chemistry teacher who was colourblind... had a purple Skoda Favorit. Had tin foil on his lab windows so the aliens couldn't read his mind. Made you wear one of his 70s-era kipper ties if you'd forgotten yours. Likewise your labcoat, you'd end up in one of his. He had a brilliant habit of falling asleep when he put a video on, we once lasted nearly the whole lesson of doing fuck all, until some other kid set fire to a gas tap. That woke him up...
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