The burdens of a long teaching day were thankfully relieved by the presentation of my new shiny slim Glow MacBook Pro. It has some great new features such as a built in camera,and light sensors that illuminate the keyboard automatically when it gets dark. I also like some of the new software such as Photobooth that works with the camera, Front Row (that comes with a remote control),and the new version of iMovie. This has great new ‘Themes’ that make you digital video editing look really professional!
On the down side, I have spent quite a while trying to get the laptop to communicate with my projector and Promethean board. It has been a bit of hassle and made me think that many teachers are faced with technical problems that could and do put them off. Fortunately I see these issues as a challenge, and I guess we have to support other teachers as much as possible to get through technical issues…if only we had 36 hours to every day!
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alastairturnbull
// Dec 1, 2006 at 12:47 pm
For me it was the other way round. The Promethian board worked fine first go, meanwhile the Smart Board………!!!!
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