My name is Colin Peaks, I'm a junior English major at Florida State. I'm from Jacksonville. I play lacrosse and enjoy writing, weekends, and getting out of class early. The only prior experience with technology is with the computer's word processor and probably minesweeper, sometimes pinball. In school my only exposure to technology was when teachers were first using smart boards so it was relatively chaotic but I'm sure things have smoothed out. What I hope to learn in this class is to efficiently navigate all the school websites I'm expected to, as well as learn how technology has changed the classroom.
My experience with twitter so far has been smooth. Of course, this is probably to do with the fact I had already used twitter for a bit, but nonetheless it is easy to use for school-related purposes as well. I do have some issues with making the posts not so dry when using it for class, but I guess that comes with the territory. I did find it interesting how the ads I come across have changed since I began using it for this purpose. Overall I like twitter best when used causally, however I do see the useful application of twitter to an educational format. http://peaksmiddleprep.weebly.com In my experience using weekly.com to make my class webpage I feel I have gained a lot. Although at first I was considerably frustrated, working through the frustration to finally understand the website made it become fun quickly. I had a lot of trouble adding links to the site, and was confused as to how I could change the tabs in the top right-hand corner of the website from the default "ho...
Oh, I found some of your introduction here! You wrote this last week!
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