Cameon Shiflett
December 9, 2010
Assignment 4
After reviewing several different computer systems and the software to go with them, the computer that best suits the needs of an educator and the students as well would be the Toshiba Satellite laptop. On sale at Best Buy for $349.99, this laptop has several features that make it such a great buy and has gotten outstanding reviews. This Toshiba laptop has a 15.6” inch display which makes it very suitable to work on both for educators and students. This computer also has a 2.2 Intel Celeron processor which means that it has a fast processing system allowing for tasks to be completed quickly and efficiently. This processing speed is also helpful in terms of software that an educator might want to put on it.
This Toshiba laptop has a battery life of almost five hours which is a great tool in helping with educating on the go and getting lesson plans and other software done in preparing to get things ready for a classroom. This laptop also has the ability to read a graphics card that you would find in a camera or other media device which would be helpful in an educator being able to take pictures and upload them onto a school website as far as lesson plans or other class activities.
This laptop comes with Microsoft Works 9 and Adobe Acrobat Reader which are both extremely useful tools in the education field. Microsoft Works has the Microsoft Word which will help in typing up lesson plans or other hand outs to hand to students, Microsoft Powerpoint which will help with the visual learners, and also Microsoft Excell which helps in creating spreadsheets and other things that can help an educator with organization.
Fun Fact: I hate to be challanged.
Fun Fact: He made the mistake of challanging me.
Fun Fact: I secretly like to be challanged.
For those that know me, those fun facts were not surprising because you already knew all of that. Furthermore, you know how I am. I'm a stubborn person. I hate being wrong and most of the time, unless it is morally unsound, I cannot say "NO" to anyone. I am a people pleaser in terms of trying to help whenever I can.
Fun Fact: That has nothing to do with this. Just more information about me that you probably don't care about.
He challenged me that I won't be able to post a blog entry everyday for 365 days and in that blog post mention 5 things I am grateful for. With this, I also have to mention 3 good deeds I either saw or was a part of during that day.
Apparently, this is the way that many people keep up with me so I will be updating it everyday with events. For those that are subscribed, I am sorry but get used to seeing my blog in your feed as new posts. It's not spam. I promise.
So, today's update: I had my one on one interview for Avanti today and it was rather nerveracking. I am so used to being able to walk into an interview and already having a reputation for being someone dependable and someone you want on your team. Here at UA, I don't have that reputation yet.
This was the third part of the process (I swear, everything at UA is a process). The first part was the actual application. Wait. I then received an email to come in for a group interview. More waiting. I then received an email about the one on one interview. I went to this said interview today. Guess what I'm doing next? Yep. More waiting. I will receive an email November 2nd with instructions to come to Student Services and get an envelope which will contain a letter of whether I made something I really want or not.
It's a strange feeling worrying if I made something or not and is definitely not one that I am used to.
In other news, I signed up for my spring classes today. I can not believe that my fall semester of college has flown by this fast! Why didn't high school go by this fast is what I'd like to know?! In my process of signing up for classes, I signed up for Italian. Yep. Random I know, but I just wanted to take one fun class. I might end up dropping it though depending on how the rest of my schedule plans out.
I am still doing the Getting Social thing and it has rather taken off faster than I thought it would. I might have bit off more than I can chew, but am thoroughy enjoying it. For that reason, I might take a web design class just for the heck of it and learn to use photoshop and more tools such as that for fun.
There is still no guy at UA. I have also come to the conclusion that I might be a little naive in my thinking when it comes to marriage and how it is. I guess I have this image in my head of how things are...but unfortunately am learning that most of the time the ideals I have don't end up happening.
Enough of that. I will close this with the 5 things I am grateful for today ( I will label this section "Gratitude" on every post and the 3 deeds or interesting things that happened during the day.
Gratitude:
