I recently saw someone ask, “Please share your worst virtual classroom disasters” I thought it would be fun to share mine.

I was doing some training as a guest speaker for a company. About 2 minutes before the session was supposed to start, I slightly moved the podium I was using. Unfortunately, it managed to hit the power switch the computer was plugged into.

I had to turn everything back on, which took about 10 minutes.

Luckily the firm I was presenting with had a host, and I had sent him my slide deck earlier. So the first half dozen slides were controlled by the host and I used my printed out slides to know where I was.

Because I was prepared for potential disasters, a real disaster was averted, but it was a little “interesting” to say the least. (And now I don’t adjust anything before the class ends.)

Worse thing to happen during an eLearning course? was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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