What To Cover In a Short "DIY Tech" Course? 256
edumacator writes "Our school is working hard to provide our students with relevant opportunities of study. We have a short 'seminar' period that meets three days a week for thirty minutes. I've chosen to teach a seminar on 'Home Grown Technology' even though I'm an English teacher and only an amateur techie. If you had thirty minutes, three days a week, for nine weeks, what would you teach a group of high school students? I'm considering the Wii-mote smartboard and multitouch displays, but I'm afraid I'm overreaching."
Re:Agriculture (Score:4, Funny)
The way things are going, I'd throw in the construction and usage of spears, slings and bows.
That way you can steal other people's crops. Er, I mean, stop them stealing yours.
How Not to Be Seen (Score:4, Funny)
Camera Self Timer. (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously, how many photos of hot young girls in the mirror or even worse that look like they're trying to point the camera at themselves.
Do the world a favor, show them that most cameras have a self timer. Heck my Canon has an awesome feature where it'll crank off up to 10 photos after a custom timer delay. Plenty of time to 'get into position'.
Re:Linux installation (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Engineering! Fun and applicable! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A long-lasting technology (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A long-lasting technology (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe just soldering, to start with, yeah?
re: pinata (Score:5, Funny)
I am sure you meant to write: piñata.
Re:A long-lasting technology (Score:3, Funny)