Tech Savvy?
Tech November 18th. 2009, 9:55pmIronically the lesson I’ve been teaching this week is about being a geek. It starts with a student having problems with their computer and friends giving him advice. I got to ask students about who they call for tech support, what is the first thing they turn on in the morning, and discuss lots of gadget related phrasal verbs. I think I got my lesson taught well enough, but it was three grammar heavy classes that left me drained about teaching about technology and computers.
It turns out that I’ve turned into the computer repair guy around the office without even trying. I’ve already successfully diagnosed two computer problems so far for people I work with. I repaired something driver related in the office, then helped with advising how to fix a problem without ever seeing the computer at someone’s home simply by running through the steps I would try to isolate the problem. I’m not really the “Fix the computer” type, but now I’ve got that reputation and people are asking for more help. What have I done?
It was a long day talking about gadgets, but I got to talk about the topic of fixing my computer with lots of recent anecdotes. I had a computer problems earlier in the week and had to call my tech savvy brother-in-law to get my computer fixed. We cracked open the case, cleaned out the dust, and went to work. Luckily it was only the 5 year old CD/DVD combo drive that needed to be replaced and was failing to let the BIOS find the OS to boot. It was a lot easier, and cheaper than I expected to fix.
I’m a very tired geek at the moment.
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