Today was the first day of instructional media class and it was enjoiable. Even though since my stroke last year I am still tring to regain my cordination in my left side and I do most off my typing now with one hand to lessen the risk of not having good cordinaton in my left hand. That is one thing I am working on this semester being able to type with both hands again and get my words per minute back up again.
When I was in 2nd grade we first got computers in a lab at school. I remember they were really big and really expensive. I remember that we did not get a home computer till I was in the 3rd grade and the only reason we got it is because my dad worked for the power company and they were up grading the computers at work and gave the employees an opportunity to buy the old ones at a really cheap price comparied to what new computers were going for. It was a good basic computer, we could use it for word processing and getting on the internet with dial up. I remember it taking so long to do anything. The printer was one of those dot printers that would print on the connected paper that you had to tear to seprate the sheets. I remember this being so load.
Now we have all different kinds of computers flat screan ones connected to towers, labtops that we can take with us, and portable printers. What it cost now for a computer we could probably have 2 or 3 for the price of one then. We also have a much faster wireless internet and the ability to teach using a projecter and a power point presentation compaired to the teacher writing on the board or making a poster by hand, now computers can print those off and we dont have to use much handwriting. Needless to say with all the technonlgy in todays world teachers can afford crapy illegible handwritting. Then with all the note taking from the board it would have been terible to have a teacher with crappy illegible handwritting. It is exciting to think that we are going to have the ability to teach these skills we learn to our future student but scary to think how much technology has changed since I graduated from Snow then it was word 2003 and now it is word 2007 and everything is different. They still have the same function, but the buttons changed.
I am excited to send you into the field of teaching. You seem to be excited and have lots of new and fresh ideas to include in your classroom. This assignment seems to have been a fun exercise for you and I hope that your dreams become a reality for both your students and yourself.
ReplyDeleteNice job on the blog...looking forward to next week's blog!
PS...I am excited to be a part of the process to help you become a great teacher!