Monday, October 20, 2014

Paper

I miss paper. Paper was my friend. I always knew where it was when i needed it. I miss being able to hold an assignment in my hand and put it in a folder. I liked being able to pull it out of my binder when I got home. I liked being able to see with my own eyes and hold with my hands the work i had to do. it made it almost imposable to forget to do it. But now all my assignments are digital. nothing for me to hold are keep a track of in the real world. its all in a digital world that does nothing for me but distract me. I am too easily sidetracked by a shiny object such as Youtube or Facebook or any of another hundred places. I open my computer to do work but in a mater of seconds I can't remember what the work was or where I can find it. I miss the days when i never had to where if i forgot an assignment. I miss paper.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Tech in K-12 Education

I am not very tech savy. For all of elementary school and middle school the only time I got to use a computer was when I went to the computer lab to work on a paper in Word with one exception. In elementary school I was trained how to type by following and mimicking what the computer told me to do. Long story short i still don't know how to type properly. I use the two finger dance to type. My experience with computers changed when I went to high school. My high school had the same type of computer lab that my other schools had but with computers that were more up to date but still not up to date with what my dad used at his office. He worked at a company that sold speech software. Pretty much it allows computers to type what you say. So i was a tad disappointed with my schools resources. Besides the lab we had two mobile laptop stations that teachers could bring to class if they reserved them in advance. They were never charged, constantly needed software updated and were missing keys. the most advanced peace of tech i ever saw on school grounds was the laptops kids brought from home but were often not allowed to use for some reason. The most advanced peace of tech the school had was a smart board that my history teach got when he was named teacher of the year for the state of New Hampshire and it only worked half the time. And the other half it would take 5 minutes to start up.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Test Blog

What brought me to SNHU was the SNHU advantage program in my home town of Salem, NH. My dad agreed to pay for the first 4 years of college as long as he paid for it and since the advantage program would get me my associates degree in liberal arts in 2 years and then would let me transfer to the main campus. plus it was down the street from my dads office. I had a great 2 years and wouldn't have traded it for anything.




Hello

Hello people of the world. My name is Chris and I'm a history nerd. In the coming weeks I would like to talk about the current conflict happening in Ukraine and the symbalisam being used. I hope people will help me understand the conflict better then I currently do.