For scrounger/ingenuity-hounds like myself, who take as much satisfaction from making something new from the tools at hand as gaining the end result, I always feel a bit undone when nudged by new-bucks technology solutions.
Today, the incidental victory of one was astonishingly out-paced by another. Whoosh!
After four years of not leveraging our video network, my sixth-graders and I patched-in a first-ever video remote broadcast from our library throughout our school campus using two skeins of RCA cables, 3 adapters, an seven-year-old video camera with a dead eyepiece, and few other assorted items. You get the picture.
Well, so did everybody else. The broadcast of our Chess Tournament to a thronged cafeteria at lunch time, brought new faces to our class project. Success.
Then, while basking in the glow of that jerry-rigged victory, our network specialist stopped by out of the blue to let me know discussions were well along with a VBrick representative to bring distributed video to all of our desktop machines. Whoosh. Checkmate.
Now that the whoosh has passed, though, I'm ready to play with the next new tool.
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