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!