Initial Blog Post

My name is Brittiney. I am from Tampa, Florida and I graduated from Plant High School in 2016. I currently am working on my undergraduate degree as a third year. I am majoring in Family and Child Sciences and minoring in both education and psychology. My overall goal is to become a Child Life Specialist so that I can work with children or infants who need some sort of therapy or assistance during their time in hospitals. I enjoy working with young children and have always wanted to find a career that would allow me to do so.

Prior to this course, I experienced a variety of technology within educational settings. I recall projectors being used often throughout elementary school instead of white boards. I also remember going to the computer lab once a month with my classmates in order to complete educational tasks online. In middle school, testing on computers became an option and slowly became more popular in our school system because it saved paper and made it easier for teachers to grade the exams or quizzes that way. This is also when Smart boards were up and coming, which I used in a majority of my high school classes, along with powerpoint slides and kahoot. 

I am very bad at using technology other than my cell phone, so I hope to gain knowledge on how to use different modes of technology. For example, I have never blogged prior to this course so I hope that by the end of the semester I will better understand how to do so. I also want to learn things that could potentially help me in my future career in regards to technology. Maybe this course will give me ideas that I will be able to use as a Child Life Specialist.

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