Comments on: Big TVs On Wheels At School

By: Big Boo

Big Boo — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:03:30 +0000

Ooh, I hate that noise. It’s right up there with people touching their eyeballs, or touching that horrible thermal paper that photocopiers used to use years ago (our primary school had one, and I used to dread being giving a sheet of the stuff for any reason).

By: Big Boo

Big Boo — Sun, 09 May 2010 23:54:37 +0000

So now they can only train a handful of people at once, since they all have to cram round a tiny pink TV?

By: Big Boo's Little Sister

Big Boo's Little Sister — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:44:07 +0000

I work in a well known supermarket and up to quite recently they had a big tv on wheels for people to watch training video’s and dvd’s on. But they now have a small pink tv dvd combi which they ues instead.

By: Zosimus the Heathen

Zosimus the Heathen — Sat, 08 May 2010 05:35:34 +0000

We also have the fancy shmancy white boards which I love but older teachers often have fits over.

Well, at least with the white boards, you can’t make hideous noises on them by running your fingernails down them. Ugh! (I still get nervous tingles every time I see someone writing on a blackboard (usually only in the movies or on TV these days), thanks to a number of unpleasant childhood experiences involving sadistic classmates who seemed to love making the aforementioned noises on the old blackboards to gross everyone else in the room out.)

By: Big Boo

Big Boo — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:11:20 +0000

Wow, Zosimus, you sure were lucky to have that many computers. I was still using BBC Micros until I had nearly finished school…

Jo, I guess you get used to cheeky kids after a while, but I can imagine you felt a bit silly. Still, glad to hear the big TVs are still doing the rounds. Shame the kids don’t get to play pretend target practice shooting the timer marks that used to come on before the schools and colleges programmes.

And Paul, I hope you mean you were a pupil at the time…

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:25:29 +0000

I remember these very well. Every break time I was tasked with distributing the tv and audio equipment to the next class that needed it. A lot of the other kids took the mickey, because I didn’t get out out break, but what they didn’t realise was that the tv room was very secluded and dark and i occasionally had visits from some of the girls. Much better than behind the bike sheds.

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:21:36 +0000

I’m a primary teacher and have to tell you that most schools I’ve worked in still have the big tv on wheels! Thank god too as the schools have loads of videos and no DVDs! We also have the fancy shmancy white boards which I love but older teachers often have fits over.

This week I had a really cheeky kid take the piss out of me because I said, “We have free time tomorrow if anyone has a video they want to bring in”, of course I should have said DVD. Way to make me feel old kid!

By: Zosimus the Heathen

Zosimus the Heathen — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:46:04 +0000

Yes, I remember that kind of thing from my own school days. Indeed, at one school I went to, the TV on wheels was housed in its very own room: the AV room! Ooh ah! (Like a shrine it was!) I also remember when VCRs first made their appearance, and how amusing we all found it to watch stuff when either the fast forward or rewind button was pressed. With regards to computers, I was a bit luckier than you, I have to say. The first school I went to that got them, way back in 1984, acquired a number of Commodore 64 machines (and it was a pretty small school too!)*, while a school I went to after that had a WHOLE ROOM filled with Apples!

*They probably wouldn’t have gotten them, though, if a new headmaster hadn’t taken the reins the year I started there. Apparently the previous headmaster had refused to get computers for the school, on the grounds that the Bible forbade them. Say what?!