Comfort Level with Technology

    I am moderately comfortable using technology in my personal and professional lives. As an instructor, I try to create an open classroom which can be viewed by interested individuals such as employers, adult students, and parents of the children whom I instruct. As a private individual, I routinely try to create digital replicas of paper notifications (e.g., relevant items in newsletters postal mailed) and physical objects which I may need to donate (e.g., knickknacks), dispose (e.g., craft projects), or return to their owners (e.g., sand samples from around the world loaned to me by parents of my students).

    Likewise, I am reminded of the necessity of lifelong learning when confronted with new technology. In middle school, I learned to use Logo programming language which required students to enter prompts to move a turtle, and in high school, I completed a course in BASIC which utilized IBM’s dreadful black screen, green font DOS prompts. In my final year of college, I learned to use email so as to participate in a computer mediated class discussion.  Finally, as an employee, I have learned to use electronic calendars and consumer end webpage design programs such as Yahoo’s Geocities. I predict that I will soon need to learn how to use digital or mobile wallets  and RFID chip locators embedded within automobiles so as to locate vehicles in large parking lots.