-
1987- Cassette Library Aquisition
12 cassettes for 1 cent - Columbia House helped me build my music library. Photo courtesy of
https://tedium.co/2015/06/11/columbia-house-history/ -
1994 - College "Computing"
Brother Word Processor high school graduation present - used floppy disks. I used this in my room and wrote papers which I would then save to take to the library to print. Photo courtesy of : https://www.iretron.com/blog/posts/technology-flashback-brother-wp-80-word-processor-1992/ -
1998 - GIS Training
Right before undergraduate graduation I was invited to a presentation on a "new" technology using GIS mapping for topographical land features (I was very clueless at the time). -
2001 - Laptop Messaging Internationally
In 2001 I was able to use a laptop in China and purchase dial-up "minutes" to instant message my family back in the US. -
2020 - Reaching Students Virtually
In 2020 my colleagues and I used Loom to record a video library of lessons/activities that we would have traditionally presented face to face. We uploaded these to our Counseling Google classroom and still use this technology today for other activities. Photo courtesy of https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/loom