Did anyone else chuckle at the picture in this BBC story?

[titch]

BBC News - Are teachers in the top 10% of earners in some areas?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/64064200

[hardtailstar]

Speakers aren't level either.....

[mikeprice]

Can I just do her a favour and submit a report that the mouse keeps moving when she tries to use the IWB

 

just to save time

 

(which may be why the projector is not switched on - why power it up if it makes the mouse go funny

 

 

Oh and

the fact that it class consists of about 5 kids

all of whom are in perfect, neat, clean uniform and are paying attention

so not any school I have worked in - or for that matter - any kids I have taught!

all points to a picture taken and arranged purely for a promotional thing

Edited December 27, 2022 by mikeprice

[sigma]

And she's clearly using Sparklebox | EduGeek.net . *Disgusted* Edited December 27, 2022 by elsiegee40

[Boredguy]

well come on, the BBC just used the Getty Image that was also used over on https://education.yourdictionary.com/for-teachers/lesson-plan-on-how-to-teach-conjunctions.html

[MrEprise]

And she's clearly using Sparklebox | EduGeek.net . *Disgusted*

 

I know of a few Primaries that use Sparklebox and don't see any issues with doing so. I even strongly recommended to one to stop using it based on the status of its founder but I'm fairly sure they chose to ignore me and continued to use it.

[StevieM]

To be fair, is that even an IWB? It looks like an ordinary whiteboard to me. Even if it is interactive, it doesn’t look like an IR/camera based one - copper matrix at best. Judging by what appears to be a CRT monitor in the bottom right corner, I think this photo is rather dated (which may also explain the use of S******box).

 

But to answer your question, yes I did chuckle.

[MrEprise]

...Judging by what appears to be a CRT monitor in the bottom right corner...

 

I think that's a glossy laptop screen.

 

Also, I think the IWB looks strikingly similar to one of the old TDS Activboards we had at my last school.

Edited December 27, 2022 by MrEprise

[titch]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj3nf82/articles/zdqdjsg

 

At least the BBC are getting their monies worth with the image

Edited December 27, 2022 by elsiegee40

[StevieM]

I think that's a glossy laptop screen.

 

Also, I think the IWB looks strikingly similar to one of the old TDS Activboards we had at my last school.

 

I stand corrected!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj3nf82/articles/zdqdjsg

 

At least the BBC are getting their monies worth with the image

[Rob_D]

To be fair, is that even an IWB?

It's a really old gen Promethean Activeboard (old enough that the ones we had used serial cables). We had them in the first school I worked in.

[Zourous]

If it’s interactive where are the cables running to the board?

[elsiegee40]

If it’s interactive where are the cables running to the board?

 

Our boards of this type had trunking running up the wall from underneath at the centre of the board… directly behind the teacher’s legs in this photo.

[mikeprice]

But doesn't the projector cable come down from the ceiling??

 

I have seen a lot of varied cable runs to IWMs but I can;t quite figure that one out

 

 

especially as the projector is switched off

 

 

if I was forced to come up with a sensible idea (which is a new concept on here for me!!) the I would say it come down the truncing on the left - from our view - and then left to right under a laminated sheet and across under the bottom of the board

because, if I remember correctly - that board had the connection on the bottom right

 

although there were probably a lot of very similar one and their connection varied a lot

[Steve21]

Everyone knows you don't trunk cables... just run it along the floor, much neater

 

 

 

Steve

[sigma]

It's a really old gen Promethean Activeboard (old enough that the ones we had used serial cables). We had them in the first school I worked in.

 

Promethean "Presenta" board? The ones the preceded the Activeboard.

[titch]

Why are we all such jobsworths....

[elsiegee40]

Why are we all such jobsworths....

 

I prefer the term blocker…