Personal technology

Blog # 2

Right now I am a Bilingual Facilitator in the Norwalk Public schools. My job needs technology. We have a current database of 1400 students in our department. We need to keep a lot of data in our database. For each student we need what school and grade they go. We have about thirty fields for each student. We have to do a lot of reports for the teachers and for the state. Our main software program is Excel. Without Excel it would take us many hours to create our reports. Without the technology of computers we would have to do all this work by hand.
Also in my personal live I use computers a lot. The e-mail capability is very important to me. I have all my family overseas. I remember twenty years ago I would write them by a letter by hand and wait about a month for a response. Now I send them an e-mail and I can have a response immediately. Sometimes I write my brother and we can even chat on the computer. It has saved me a lot of money on telephone calls to them. I also use the computers to do all my bookkeeping on line. I have been using computers for a long time ago so I am very comfortable using them.
I don’t know what to expect for this course. This is my first class so as everything is new to me so is the class. However after yesterday’s class, I am very excited about what we are going to learn and be able to do. I did not expect that we would learn how to create our own web site. I think I was thinking more in a way of how to do research on the computer for our own projects in teaching. How to look for websites related to education and things like that.