This week I got "Pirates of Silicon Valley" from Netflix and watched through the Wii. My kids took one look and quickly cleared the room. My husband graciously went to bed early. Who knew it was so easy to clear a room. Personally, anything with Noah Wylie in it can't be that bad, and even if it is....Noah Wylie's in it so I'll keep watching. Anyway....I had seen parts of the movie several times on TV, but this was the first time I watched all the way through. It was interesting to see the ups and downs of their creative escapades and how it fluctuated back and forth between the two pairs of inventors. Apple's ahead, now wait....Microsoft is ahead. They pretty much sacrificed everything, including relationships in order to create these dream machines. Of course most people would say that they've been more than compensated for their sacrifices. The one thing I found annoying, and I usually do, was that they kept switching from modern day (1999) to flashbacks the characters were having about the process, trials and tribulations. Overall, I thought it was a good movie and they picked good actors to play the parts of each of the characters.
Also, this week I decided to trade computers with my daughter. At home I had to use Vista and she got to use my Windows 7. It was a very long week for me. I found myself just waiting until I got to work to do things on the computer, whenever possible. I hated Vista. It kept freezing up, seemed really slow and nothing was where I expected to find it. I am really glad that I jumped right from XP to Windows 7 and didn't end up with Vista on any of my computers!
Another experiment was to play around with the additional features on Windows 7. I found some useful child safety features that allowed me to control my children's Internet usage. It's safe to say that they were not the least bit impressed. I also set up for backups on my computer. I tried optimizing set-up on my laptop, but I didn't notice any difference really.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
CEDu 581-Week 1
This is our final course. While I am extremely happy to be finishing this master's program (and can't decide what to do first with all of the spare time I'll have), I have to admit that the time has gone quickly and I've learned so much that I've been able to apply in my classroom immediately.
Anyway....This week we learned about the history of the computer. It's interesting to me because I have lived through most of it. I can remember when computers took up whole (large) rooms and most people never saw one. Our assignment was to take apart a computer and label its parts. I first saw the inside of a computer about 19 years ago when I took a computing for educators course. At the time I thought that was the first and last time I'd ever want or need to do that. Who new the machines would grow on me as they have. Looking inside reminded me of the time when my husband decided to add memory to our Macintosh computer. He dragged me to Circuit City on a Sunday morning to buy it because it was on sale. At the time I was student teaching and about 2 weeks from graduation. All the way home I begged him not to touch the computer until I had time to save all my lesson plans and my portfolio to a disk. Unfortunately, I fell asleep when we got home and awoke about 45 minutes later to find him with the computer in pieces. You guessed it....I hadn't save to a disk and EVERYTHING was gone. It's okay though because, "He didn't think that would happen and he didn't mean to." That's when I learned that I always need a back up and I usually have a back up for my backup.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Anyway....This week we learned about the history of the computer. It's interesting to me because I have lived through most of it. I can remember when computers took up whole (large) rooms and most people never saw one. Our assignment was to take apart a computer and label its parts. I first saw the inside of a computer about 19 years ago when I took a computing for educators course. At the time I thought that was the first and last time I'd ever want or need to do that. Who new the machines would grow on me as they have. Looking inside reminded me of the time when my husband decided to add memory to our Macintosh computer. He dragged me to Circuit City on a Sunday morning to buy it because it was on sale. At the time I was student teaching and about 2 weeks from graduation. All the way home I begged him not to touch the computer until I had time to save all my lesson plans and my portfolio to a disk. Unfortunately, I fell asleep when we got home and awoke about 45 minutes later to find him with the computer in pieces. You guessed it....I hadn't save to a disk and EVERYTHING was gone. It's okay though because, "He didn't think that would happen and he didn't mean to." That's when I learned that I always need a back up and I usually have a back up for my backup.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
534 week 5
For this week I created a WIKI on WIKI Spaces. Since I can't access it from work I made one for a personal project. It was an easy WIKI to work with and it is an effective way to organize and share information.
Throughout the course I enjoyed all of the different tools that we had the chance to look over and practice with. I found so many things that I can do with my students and use personally. I would rather not have had to do a videocast--only because I prefer not to be in front of a camera. My students on the other hand will probably love it.
Throughout the course I enjoyed all of the different tools that we had the chance to look over and practice with. I found so many things that I can do with my students and use personally. I would rather not have had to do a videocast--only because I prefer not to be in front of a camera. My students on the other hand will probably love it.
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