Assignment #1

I have very little experience when it comes to technology and computers. I write papers for my classes and I send emails regularly. I research for my papers through the internet. I check my facebook and myspace accounts daily. I use list-serve through my co-ed fraternity. I talk on AIM every now and again. This is pretty much my experience with computers. I don't know how to create or design web pages. It's not that I'm not interested in learning it, I just don't have the time or necessarily the urge to learn it right now.



I hope to learn more about computers and how I can use them in the classroom if I do decide to teach. Using a blog to communicate with parents is really interesting to me and seems like it will be a useful tool. I know the bare minimum about Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and I am excited to learn more about them. I feel that these tools will be useful to me the rest of the time I am in college and in life.



The test that I took told me that I am a visual learner. This is definitely true. Whenever I take a test, I visualize my notes in my head and I can see (and practically read) my notes to remember the answer that I am looking for. This is another reason that this computer class will be helpful for me. I will be able to actually create the things and be able to visualize them later. The test also stated that I learn things by experience. This is also true. Once I actually do something myself, I am most likely to remember doing it, and how to do it, for a while afterwards. This isn't always a good thing thing though, as sometimes in order for me to understand something, I have to learn it the hard way. My family sometimes wishes that I would just listen to their advice instead of trying everything out for myself.