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First home computer
We got our first computer at home in 1996. For the first time, I could type papers. No more cramping hands or scampering to type and print at school. Photo Credit: "Personal Computer Pentium I 586" by Wilfredo R Rodriguez H - Own work. Licensed under CC0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Personal_Computer_Pentium_I_586.JPG#/media/File:Personal_Computer_Pentium_I_586.JPG -
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Significant Personal Technological Events
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Loaner Laptop at College
My friend David's dad loaned me his old laptop so I wouldn't have to spend all day at the library typing assignments. I still didn't have a printer, so I had to save files to disk and print them at the library. This was a turning point in my personal computing/educational life. Photo credit: Medessec at English Wikipedia (via wikicommons) -
My very first PC
The loaner laptop had long since died, and I had moved off campus. The late night treks to and from the library were tedious and not particularly safe. The time had come to use that new credit card with which no 20 year old should be entrusted and hit the DELL website. My first PC was black and bundled with a printer. -
First Digital Camera
That Kodak digital camera had a whopping 1.3 megapixels, but it marked the end of instant cameras and the beginning of immediate gratification in photography. It changed the way I documented my world, and became something I used for school and work with my work study position, taking pictures for our community music program. How far we've come in the past 14 years! Photo Credit: "CX4200" by Richard Wilde - Own work. wikicommons -
Hello Facebook, Goodbye MySpace
At the urginig of my baby sister, who was a hip undergrad at the time, I joined Facebook and left the inferior myspace behind. This was back in the days of Facebook's youth, when it was just for networking amonng college students Quickly it became one of the best ways to communicate with students and classmates when I was a graduate student/TA at WVU. Photo Credit: "F icon" by Original: Facebook, Inc.Vectorization: Tkgd2007 - Own work based on: Facebook favicon logoThis vector graphics image w -
Finale Free
In my first higher education job, I discovered the joy of arranging music with Finale in its free version. Though tedious, the advantages of being able to playback what you write and the ease of reading and reproducing made it worth my time and gave me the ability to personalize music for my choir. Photo credit: Didouchk~commonswiki from Wikicommons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Finale_2011.jpg -
First Entirely Online Course
This particular course was a required music history review for graduate students, which I had to take upon starting work on my doctorate. It was awful and taught me everything an online class should NOT be. The whole class was regurgitating information from a text book in about 9 hours of questions from the book per week (that is not an exaggeration). It's not postive, but it IS significant. -
Online Course: Music's Meanings
I took this course during my doctoral coursework because I was told it was a good class, and I wanted to experience a good one because I knew I might be teaching one someday. There was no textbook. The professor did an excellent job incorporating discussion and group work, despite the entirely online format. I still don't care for online learning solely, however I was glad for the experience. -
Began online graduate work at Marshall
Though I detest entirely online coursework, I began work toward teacher certification through Marshall, which is largely online. I may have lost my mind. Photo cred: "Marshall University Bar M logo" by Marshall University.Original uploader was Zscout370 at en.wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:NativeForeigner using CommonsHelper.(Original text : http://www.marshall.edu/logo/StyleGuideManual.pdf). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons -
Title Image Credit
"Conversationprism" by Brian Solis and JESS3 - http://www.theconversationprism.com/. Licensed under CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conversationprism.jpeg#/media/File:Conversationprism.jpeg
