I am a digital immigrant. Technology did not come natural to me. It came kicking and screaming and pulling me into its arms. I am a survivor of a techonlogy attack. I am doing the best I can to "get with it" but it is moving faster than this old body can move. I take classes all the time. I am good at MS Office for the most part. I am not good at excell math stuff. I don't get it. I just use a calculator. I still print out my emails to read if they are long. I don't know why I can't read them on the screen. Maybe it is the bifocals that make it so hard. I have to tip my head back to read. I am learning to use the internet in creative ways instead of email and looking up my friends. I know how to use AlphaSmart word processors. I can publish with the best of you. However,I don't do My Space or Facebook. I think that is just to personal to post. I do blog (obviously) but I haven't learned to vlog. I know that I can podcast using a telephone instead of a digital recorder. I want my students to learn that next year. I actually got a cell phone when a police officer friend of mine told me I drive too far alone to be without one. (Actually I got it because I weed eated my phone lines and I needed to call the phone company. Did you know there aren't very many pay phones any more?) I have a palm pilot but I quit using it because it made my purse heavy. Now I hear you can do the same stuff on your phone. I will have to up grade the darn thing. I have a digital camera and I can download pictures. However I don't know where it is. My phone takes pictures and I can send them to people if I want to now but they aren't very good. I can roam the internet but I find that rather boring. I like to play games on the computer but not online. Computers just aren't natural to me. I got mine when my youngest joined the Navy and went to sea. The first time that happened I didn't have a computer and her sister got all the emails at work. I got my first computer before she went to sea the second time. I have never looked back. Best investment I ever made. She is going to sea again this winter and I will be able to keep in touch. I love technology.
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About MysteryTeacher
I am a wild, whacky, weird, wonderful woman and teacher. I am venturing into a previous life by teaching ELL this fall. I use to teach ESL years ago. I am excited, empowered, and employed. I love life.