Eating up Apple
I have wanted an Apple MacBook for about a year or so now. Every time I go to a conference I am surrounded by Macs. In fact the first technology conference that I attended I went with pen and paper. Seriously! I have not been given my school laptop yet and I did not want to take the spilled-on/sticky home laptop. In fact that is probably the first of my mac want-ings.
So, just this month we bit the financial lip and purchased my first MacBook Pro. And while we were at it we also ordered the iPad 2. I am now Apple equipped!
As a professor in education and the instructor of the Instructional Media and Technology course, I felt the need to know these products. It seems like most schools that our students will be going into for their future teaching positions have Macs and iPads. I have really felt like a fish out of water when it came to these. Along side this was also the frustration of many conferences giving technology strategies that focus on the Mac.
Also dealing with a work computer and the need to get approval for everything that I want to download has gotten not only time consuming, but also very frustrating. In my job, I need to be able to download, try, use, uninstall, etc. different programs. I think that it is a mutual feeling between myself and the IT department that we are tired of seeing each other :).
So, here I am with my very own Mac computer. Able to put on anything that, explore, learn, play, etc....and honestly don't even know where to start! Could I possibly be overwhelmed at the amount of new technology to play with?
And I didn't even mention the new electronic whiteboard toys (I mean instructional tools) that the school has bought! I think that next week needs to be "play with technology week".
So, just this month we bit the financial lip and purchased my first MacBook Pro. And while we were at it we also ordered the iPad 2. I am now Apple equipped!
As a professor in education and the instructor of the Instructional Media and Technology course, I felt the need to know these products. It seems like most schools that our students will be going into for their future teaching positions have Macs and iPads. I have really felt like a fish out of water when it came to these. Along side this was also the frustration of many conferences giving technology strategies that focus on the Mac.
Also dealing with a work computer and the need to get approval for everything that I want to download has gotten not only time consuming, but also very frustrating. In my job, I need to be able to download, try, use, uninstall, etc. different programs. I think that it is a mutual feeling between myself and the IT department that we are tired of seeing each other :).
So, here I am with my very own Mac computer. Able to put on anything that, explore, learn, play, etc....and honestly don't even know where to start! Could I possibly be overwhelmed at the amount of new technology to play with?
And I didn't even mention the new electronic whiteboard toys (I mean instructional tools) that the school has bought! I think that next week needs to be "play with technology week".
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