I know. I find the idea of me as a person with any technology skills a stretch as well. However, I have to share that for the first time in my life I found myself in a situation where I felt borderline "techy".
It all happened during a staff meeting last week. We were brainstorming about what we need to do better. As you can image, technology came up a lot. By the time our session was over we had a list of "new" technologies my department thinks we should learn to use. The list read something like this:
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- Podcasts
- Wikis
- Blogs
- Skype
This is about the time I started to find myself in unfamiliar territory. I not only understood all the "techy" terms people were throwing out, but I know how to use all of those technologies. The list created at work looked very similar to the syllabus that was create the first night of class. Had I not taken this class I would have been very intimidated with that list of technology, but now I am excited and cannot wait to help find ways to use these technologies.
Wow!! We are making such progress, aren't we? I can sense your confidence growing and I think it's so cool! That must have been empowering to be sitting in that meeting and not only know what was being discussed but have something to offer. It's like we're almost "players"! Way to go and thanks so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteGreat news! Welcome to the dark side. HA!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you're going to have the opportunity to be on the leading edge. Can't wait to hear how it goes!
That is exciting! I know I always feel better when things are familiar instead of being in over my head.
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