That idea that gnaws at you in the days where you have time to think.
I have been fascinated by technology since 1994 when I sucked it up and decided to purchase my first computer. My intentions were purely educational as I had been a middle school teacher at the time. I had lofty ideas that I would create documents that would look cute and yet be informative, at I did just that in the times I needed to, but in my spare time I learned what a chat room was (for those of you who have never experienced AOL and the chat room frenzy, it was the early stages of social networking), and utilized my web mining skills to locate new things of interest and definitely a new look on humanity as my paths crossed many people with whom I may not have met in my life. It has made me more aware, open to other ideas, and in some cases a little more on guard about those who just "pop" in to say "HI". In all cases, technology will be an ongoing learning process for me.
Around 1998, I was involved in an organization that was associated with science fair competitions. The paperwork (and explanations of that paperwork) were always a challenge to students who wanted to make things go "BOOM" or grow some new strain of mold. So it was decided that a web presence was needed to bridge the gaps between the SRC committee and the schools. This is where I first learned that designing web pages although could be tedious, was not a difficult thing to learn. Fast forward through the Web 2.0 craze, I have had a blog or two or three, or forty, always learning and trying to find which would be the easiest for my students to learn and display work or prose.
By 2014, I was teaching HTML coding rather than teaching Biology or Earth/Space Science. I am not going to lie when I tell you, that first year was exhilarating to me because I was only an infant at coding so I just stayed one step ahead of my students. And for what it is worth, they taught me things along the way. It was a challenge to answer their questions definitively and because of this, my classes became a "What if I did this..." or "How did you do that.." mentality where we all learned differently to accomplish the same end result - a functioning webpage.
All this time I swore I would have my own website. I once bought a domain name, but never built the site because I was not sure as to the focus. So now, years after my first instance with web content, I feel a need to actually get off the pot and do a personal website. Who knows where it will lead? Thank you for reading a little about how I got to where I am. If you have comments, I do have a comments page.
Blessings abound, you just need to look for them.
Around 1998, I was involved in an organization that was associated with science fair competitions. The paperwork (and explanations of that paperwork) were always a challenge to students who wanted to make things go "BOOM" or grow some new strain of mold. So it was decided that a web presence was needed to bridge the gaps between the SRC committee and the schools. This is where I first learned that designing web pages although could be tedious, was not a difficult thing to learn. Fast forward through the Web 2.0 craze, I have had a blog or two or three, or forty, always learning and trying to find which would be the easiest for my students to learn and display work or prose.
By 2014, I was teaching HTML coding rather than teaching Biology or Earth/Space Science. I am not going to lie when I tell you, that first year was exhilarating to me because I was only an infant at coding so I just stayed one step ahead of my students. And for what it is worth, they taught me things along the way. It was a challenge to answer their questions definitively and because of this, my classes became a "What if I did this..." or "How did you do that.." mentality where we all learned differently to accomplish the same end result - a functioning webpage.
All this time I swore I would have my own website. I once bought a domain name, but never built the site because I was not sure as to the focus. So now, years after my first instance with web content, I feel a need to actually get off the pot and do a personal website. Who knows where it will lead? Thank you for reading a little about how I got to where I am. If you have comments, I do have a comments page.
Blessings abound, you just need to look for them.