My Ed-Tech Experience. K-12

When I was in elementary school we had a cart of about 30 Mac laptops that the whole school had to share. We were only taught how to use the basics of the laptop and become familiar with them. My experience in middle school was a little different. In the library there was about 20 Mac desktops and like my elementary school we also had a cart of laptops. In our 7th grade class we spent about a week in the library learning how to budget our money on a website, I can not remember the site or projects name. Anyways, we had to pick a career and look up the yearly wage we would make. Based on that we had to pick an area to live in and a place we could afford along with a car. Starting in 8th grade my social studies teacher had us do a stock project for a month. We were able the use the laptops in our classroom. We had to invest fake money into stocks of our choice. We had to budget our money, watch the stock and decided if or when to sell or buy more.

In high school we basically used the computers for research and they were all in the library. We had about 5 Macs and the rest were PCs. Every teacher had one computer in their classroom for their own use. There were about 5 other rooms with multiple computers for certain technology based classes. My sophomore year I took a class called engineering drawing where we had to make 2D and 3D drawings on the computer. We also had to write part of a program, that our teacher created, to spell out our initials to be engraved onto a piece of metal or fiberglass. My other computer experience was used in my music theory class. We used a program called Finale to compose simple pieces of music, like chorales, jingles, and a percussion composition. We all had piano keyboards in-front of the computers but they were not connected to each other. We were also able to use garage band for jingles or just for fun.

"What Brings You to SNHU?"

 Before I attended SNHU, I was apart of the community band while I was a sophomore in high school. I originally was applying to SNHU for Criminal Justice but at the last minute I changed my mind and went into Music Education. I do not regret my decision at all. I love working with kids but I would rather work with middle school or older. I enjoying playing my instruments, I couldn't imagine giving up my music. What I like most about our music department is that it's small, so we get one on one help and get hands on experience in actual classrooms in the surrounding towns.

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