It's happened happened to pretty much everyone who’s ever taken a college class — your professor thinks he knows what he’s doing with a simple piece of technology, but doesn’t. Sure, it doesn’t have the easy user-interface of a blackboard, or the simple startup procedure of a textbook, but hey, how hard can it be to figure out in the first five minutes, right?

Of course, this would all be just hilarious and we could all surreptitiously laugh about it and call him a jackass later that night at the bars, except stop to think about it for a second: we’re dropping some pretty serious tuition dollars for this professor to mess around in class under the pretense of teaching us.

Let’s get something straight here: technology is complicated, and it’s unreasonable to expect every professor to understand the nuances of digital projectors, editing software, classroom response devices, PowerPoint lectures or even — God help you if this is true — Internet browsers.

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