Rather than writing down what they were supposed to be writing down, students wanted to know important details such as, "How did you get the clip art to move?"
"Magic," I replied with a wave of my hand. "Duh."
Then they wanted to know why the cartoon characters did not appear to have a waist. And what the cartoon character was writing. And why they couldn't read the writing. And so on and so forth until I was about ready to delete all remnants of clip art so we could continue with the actual lesson.
On the final slide, I made an even bigger mistake. The example sentence used to demonstrate relative pronouns and relative clauses was, "The person who called me last night is my teacher." I very cleverly thought that a phone would be an appropriate piece of clip art to illustrate this slide. It didn't even have any motion--it was just a phone. Here's what the phone looked like:
Anyone else see where this is going?
"Why are there no numbers on that clock?"
BECAUSE IT'S NOT A CLOCK! BACK WHEN DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THIS WAS THE ONLY PHONE WE HAD! AND IT HAD A CORD AND WAS WIRED TO THE WALL! GET OFF MY LAWN!
*deep cleansing breaths*
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