Week 7 Blog EDUC 630

Reflect on your own personal use of technology in day to day living . .not education necessarily.  How do you balance the natural demands technology place upon you and your family and the supposed (and realized) benefits they potentially provide?

Oh boy, when I think about my personal use of technology in my day to day living, I tend to be somewhat embarrassed at the number of hours that I actually spend online.  Between school and work and my overall curiosity about what is going on in the world, I am online all the time.  The balance of natural demands of technology and my family is interesting as well.  My son is 23 and lives in Lynchburg, attending Liberty.  He and I almost always only communicate via text and email.  I am not sure where our relationship would be if we did not have technology. I am sure that we would not write to each other…well I guess I actually would have to because that would be the only way for me to get him money, here and there.

My daughter and I text each other quite a bit too even though we live together.  Our schedules are so busy that we don't often have time to keep up with each other so when I need her to know something I will normally send her a text if she is not with me.

I am on Facebook keeping up with friends and the latest information at least 4-5 times a day.  I think most of this is because I have always been a loner and found ways to occupy my time.  This would include writing and reading by myself, with the advancements of technology and having the Internet at my fingertips all the time, I tend to just be online to research various topics all the time.

This is why the online school works for me so well, it allows me to work at my own pace and in my own space.  I am able to log in and get my assignments completed on a pretty consistent basis.  I have to balance my time to make sure that I am working on actual work for class or work rather than being caught up with things that are just interesting to me.  I love to keep up with news and world events and one article leads to another, it's pretty interesting and I am very happy to be involved with technology at a time where the advances are happening so rapidly.