Journal 15

Journal 15 - Digital Education Matt Steel

Blogging was completely foreign to me until this semester. Blogger turned out to be a great classroom tool, being easy to use with an interesting plus - feedback that can be read at any time. I find I’m - far - more organised while working on computers, I’ve always been the guy with the loose paper monstrosity known as my binder.

Unfortunately, school PC’s are absolute trash and are a huge sufferance to productivity. The school’s bandwidth isn’t fit for a seniors’ online banking, let alone having a hundred kids trying to get whatever they’re doing done at the same time. I’ve legitimately typed ewcfall2009.blogspot.com, waited unsuccessfully for a minute for it to load, put my head down for a ten minute nap, looked up, and had it not loaded. For real. School software is starting to look ancient. IE7? Really? A combination of needing to reinstall proper software due to a poorly preset Deep Freeze and an underfunded internet connection result in a mind numbing amount of time lost every day clearing up the necessities, plus fifteen minutes a day in waiting for “Thesaurus.com” to load.

I’ve had a great time with our blogging, and I would tell the next symester students not to screw around and let work build up like I did, and to bring in an ipod if they need music to work properly. Between finding unblocked sites and mind numbing load times, your equilibrium will be sent for a trip.