Ever So Slowly

Well I use to think I was up with the times...until the "times" started moving so quickly! I refuse to consider myself "middle-aged" but each year I get closer and closer to those years. This is very true when it comes to my knowledge of technology. I only know what I know. I have not spent much time moving up with the times! Soon I am going to be one "those people"....the people that only know what they need to know for their job or their newest toy...the ones who say that back in the day it was just easier to.... Last weekend I finally joined the ever so overcrowded world of laptop owners. I have been pining away for years but could not justify the spending of money. I have a perfectly good desktop sitting at home...with a very hard chair...so not to sit there too long. All I have to do now is take the time and figure all this stuff out! Vista Office System, new features within Word, Outlook and PowerPoint, downloading pictures....a wireless router...how to print...and new software I learned about at school this week that will make teaching super cool and fun....and I no longer have any excuses on why my raverly page is not completed! When I left Drake University I felt very confident in my computer skills. In fact within the school system I felt even more confident because Drake was ahead of the school system. I helped all of those who needed it. Those were the Mac years and the beginning of the PC years. Then years of keeping the same operating system both at school and home did not force me to update my skills. Now I know just enough to be dangerous. Well if I do this...then this should happened...why won't it let me do this if I can do that...It can take me forever just trying to make sure it is centered just the way I want it or I find a clip art to match my newsletter. I am hoping to start my Master's in Teaching degree in a couple of weeks. I have a lot to learn. If nothing else...just a new computer. I am very excited by the whole process. I have been saying for last couple of years that I wanted to learn something different within education and technology and now I can do both at the same time! My Master's will be a work in progress...ever so slowly to not overwhelm me while teaching. But oh so exciting! Here I go ever so slowly...expanding my learning in both education and technology just like back in the day when I took a knitting class. Excited, nervous, ready...I can't wait for it to begin. Now if they make me hold my pencil a certain way I might have through it across the room like I wanted to with my knitting needle. (As for the Einstein coat...it too is going ever so slowly...I am just about ready to work on the button holes on the bottom of the coat...next comes the front. I can't wait to just sit and knit.)