#1 Hi! Nice to meet you!

Hello my name is Peg. I'm a full-time student undergraduate at OSU working toward my Bachelor of Education degree in Business Education. This is my second go around with Fawn and one of her technology classes so if you will scroll down you will see that there are previous comments about class. Oh just a perk for her class, I did enjoy what I learned last quarter so let's hope this quarter turns out as good.

The good-looking guy that is with me is my husband, Rich. We've been married for 20 years now. I almost can't believe that he has put up with me for that long, but thank goodness he does. I also have two wonderful children, Colleen (14) and Nate (11), which I'm sure you'll be reading more about later.

At this point in my life I use the Internet daily. I feel like I'm in front of the computer screen constantly, but I do enjoy the technology. I use the Internet for emails (both professionally and personally), research for school, and as an education tool for myself. One day I will be teaching students how to navigate the web so I need all the practice that I can get to know what I am doing. My goal is to be employed at my home school district of North Union.

I do not have any previous experience with working with web design. Actually, I'll be honest after Thursday night's class, I'm probably even more confused. It'll be alright though. I know that I'll get through it with the help of my classmates :-) I think I'll concentrate on designing a page that I may be able to use in the future for classes that I will be teaching.

I posted on Scott's and Janet's websites this week.

Blog #9

Wow! I can hardly believe that this class is almost over. My understanding and use of technology has grown tremendously this course. I can honestly say that I have enjoyed using Photoshop and Movie Maker to make my own creations that meant something personal to me. By actually using the software I would feel comfortable introducing them to my students to see what creations they could come up with for their projects. I have tremendously enjoyed the on-hands approach to learning for this course. I believe that as an educator if we can get our students involved in their learning that they too would actually learn something. By that I mean, that hands-on learning is tremendously important. It allows students (us too) to explore, make mistakes, and then fix them which stays in our minds much better than just to read it out of a book and try to memorize the information.

I probably won't keep up the blog, as it isn't really my style, but it was fun to read other people's blogs to see how they were reacting to the class. I know that if I could actually afford it I would be out there purchasing the software for my home computer. Let's just hope that when I get a teaching job that the school district will have the software. Better yet, they'll let me purchase the latest version!

I wish you all continued success in your careers. Remember that networking is a wonderful thing, and by meeting new people each quarter you never know when you might come in contact again for some purpose. Good Luck at The Ohio State University!

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