Before I taught today’s lesson on social justice artist, Rebecca Belmore, I sat in the staff room reviewing my slides and thinking to myself, what if the video doesn’t play?  I wanted to show a video performance by Belmore to the class and have them analyse it.  Suddenly, my gut feelings kicked in and told me that it wouldn’t work.  It just wouldn’t play.

I immediately looked for screencaps of the performance and added it onto my powerpoint presentation in case I had to resort to this.  When I attempted to play the video performance, it worked for a couple seconds and then it stopped.  It didn’t work.  I was told that the Internet connection there was shoddy and couldn’t be depended on.  THANK GOODNESS FOR MY SCREENCAPS!!  I was able to carry on the class discussion with my last minute screencap additions.  Lesson learned….