There are those who want the latest and best, and want it now. In the middle are the majority who are often pushed into the technology when they are ill-prepared and unready psychologically. They are pressured by students, campus administration, our current technological culture, into using technology before it makes sense for their particular classroom environment. The key is to enable each faculty member to teach in the most effective way for that micro-environment of faculty member and subject being taught, not for the technology. Expectations have far outstripped reality.
Displacement sets in.
Professor X yells at support staff member Y who yells at subordinate Z who goes home and kicks the dog. The next day, the cycle repeats itself and tensions mount. By the end of term, the only one no longer snarling is probably the dog, whose kennel is mercifully neither wired nor equipped with a computer. While technological developments continue to outstrip our capability to absorb them, many of us have more on our desktops now than we can or are able to use. It's time to assess what needs to be replaced and upgraded, and time to assess whether the newest, glitziest gizmo is really in our best interest.