Really Crazy Start for Art and Photography

I was chosen as a Media Arts teacher because I was good enough in computers. However, since the SPA (Special Program for the Arts) Media Arts offers a variety of sub-courses that is comparable to computer based (Photography, Broadcasting, Videography, Layouting) courses and all related to Media. I chose Photography since I thought, it is close enough to Physics- with the mechanical (Mechanics) and digital device (Electronics) called Camera, and it uses Lenses, and Light (Optics) - and therefore much easier to teach without studying too much.Since I am a frustrated History teacher, I even delved in its history. So I thought
I started with practically nothing - the school has no SLR or DSLR camera, it has no studio, heck, not even a classroom! It sounds almost crazy. Sure, the school has a video-cam but its "holder" made it a personal So I read and read, surfed the internet, bought really rock-bottomed priced cheap books and couldn't ask help from anybody at all. The books that I bought were all about film-based cameras but have good pictures and the Photography concepts were pretty much unchanging. Later I acquired digital camera books. Still, I need to have a good camera myself! 
the students that the school got were from the regular class, mostly average and poor students who couldn't afford to buy a camera of their own. Talk about photography class whose teacher has no camera, and its students, mostly have no cameras too! Now this one doesn't sound crazy, its already crazy. (TO BE CONTINUED...)