Technology Woes

This past week was speckled with my normal amount of technological mishaps.  The elmo is hooked to my computer and if I forget to turn it on before I log in to my computer in the morning, then my smartboard will not show my computer screen.  This happens fairly often so I know to look at the elmo if I can't show my bellringer power point.  For some reason my smartboard is temperamental and will work well in the morning but has hiccups in the afternoon where it won't allow me to write on it.  Most of the time I see that the red light on the screen is on and I do the paper clip trick to reset it but it takes a while to right itself and I lose writing capability again.  A few weeks ago, I lost writing capability for a week.  Paper clip wouldn't work, rebooting wouldn't work, and sysop seemed stumped.  We thought the next thing would be to order a new pen board for smartboard.  Luckily before we did this my friendly neighborhood TIS saved the day by discovering that the pen board was unplugged and he unscrewed the smartboard so that the pen board connector could be accessed and reconnected.