Technology woes

Today is off to a good start. The first four items on my list were accomplished before 10:00 a.m. and I’m getting ready to crush my civil rights lecture. This is the state of my shared office in the midst of a flurry of activity:

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In a somewhat hilarious twist for the Day of DH2013, the power went out in my classroom this morning. I spent a good chunk of my morning reorganizing PowerPoint map slides to make the Cold War and containment ideas easier for my students to understand and discuss. Clearly, that wasn’t happening, so we went outside and discussed the Cold War in the sunshine and it was lovely. A technological disaster turned into a class. As someone said on twitter, it’s not *always* about computers!