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[mrsquirrel]

They all have nice shiny new notebooks. All the teachers do.

Not me though, I still have this POS 6 year old Samsung Sensp10c that needs a paper clip in the DVD rom to keep it working.

Wonder what happened to that English zone budget for next year.

[Bigs]

Reminds me of my findings at the end of Summer vacation

All the teachers have brand new PCs with LCD monitors
I still have a shitbox running Windows 98 (the only computer in the school that still does!) with a CRT under the desk taking up my legroom.

(Nothing's changed)

[agoodmouse]

I was handed this LG laptop when I first arrived at my school.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I got a new computer a few months ago! I don't know if that was a regularly scheduled upgrade, because the school likes me, or because the computer teacher likes me, but I was delighted not to be left out all the same.

[mrsquirrel]

I can still get my old SenSp10c here to do the business, just takes a bit more coaxing and planning ahead.

Thankfully VLC can be set to cache the DVD so that the USB1.1 interface is usuable for playing movies.

Thing is if I break this one there are now 30 odd old ones waiting to replace it. Should have dropped it last year.

[KYC]

I don't even have a notebook. The projector was broken roughly 3 weeks ago. I came back from my vacation and the convo went like this...


CT: The lens in the projector is broken. It is very expensive to replace it so we will not.
Me: erm.......
CT: It is very expensive to buy a new lens for the projector.
Me: erm....the textbook lessons are accompanied by the CD-ROM. My other lessons are all power point based as well. You know our children need "visual" aid in the learning process.
CT: Yes. but it is too expensive.
Me: erm...I can't teach without a projector.
CT: You will go to the students' classroom and use the computers & tv there.
Me: erm........................

[ChopChaeJoe]

I wonder what teachers did before computers. teach?

[Smee]

Every public school I've been in---okay, only 5---has had a language lab, and in every public school I've been in the materials there are vastly inferior to those found in other rooms. I have a TV, though not as new and fancy as other rooms. More importantly, nobody---not the tech guys or my coteachers---know how to hook it up to the computer or DVD player. So powerpoint's out, youtube's out, explanatory pictures're out . . . hell, even if I wanted to slack off and show a movie after exam week, I can't do that. The computer is old, slow, and bug-ridden. They wiped the harddrive, but that didn't help much. I noticed the switch when I came in to class one morning and noticed all my files were gone. Not that it matters anyway, because since mid-December I haven't had power at my workstation, so the computer and overhead projector won't even turn on. The tech guys don't know what's wrong, either.

Whatever, I do low-tech lessons and they go fine. Most of the time I think they work out better than fancy, technology-driven lessons that, often, end up losing and confusing kids anyway. It's just the principle of the thing.

[mrsquirrel]

[Ya-ta Boy]

All the Korean teachers at my school have a computer on their desk. The 10 waygookin teachers have two computers to share...and one of them is connected to a printer. All of the holiday faculty parties are scheduled during waygookin teachers' classes.

[tob55]

I have had hand me downs ever since I arrived over 3 years ago. I worked on a machine that had Windows 98 on it until it finally crashed and burned. All of the teachers in my office (all Korean in my school except for me) have bright shiny new laptops that they can carry around to their classes with them. I have a PC which is okay by me except when I have a presentation I want to give. Then we have to move everyone to the English media room, but guess what. All the teachers with the bright shiny new laptops want to use my English media room to do their presentations too. So more often than not I get bumped because English isn't important anyway, right?

Oh well, I bought me a couple of 4 gig flash drives and when I need do do a presentation I have my CT bring her shiny new laptop to class with her. One thing they did do last year was install Beam Projectors into all of the classrooms which makes it much better for viewing in-class presentations.

[R. S. Refugee]

All the classrooms here have a very large projection screen type of television hooked up to a computer. They also have a studio room so students in each classroom can all watch a program in the studio such as speeches by students running for class offices.

It's pretty good here. But I am wondering whether anyone on this discussion has managed to get an English version of windows installed on the computer they use at school. I would like to do that.

Cheers.

[topas]

My school never even provided me with a computer. I get to carry my own laptop to and from school on the bus every day.

[mrsquirrel]

I asked where mine was today and if they have a spare one I can have it.

I would be quite happy with 512mb of ram and a new DVD drive (maybe USB 2.0 pcmcia card as well) it would all be dandy.

[KYC]