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Newspaper Clippings!

Created using the Newspaper Clipping Generator. Although I used this to reflect on a few new Web 2.0 tools I learned while attending the MassCUE 2011 Conference, I think this could be a great way for students to share their writing.

Too much technology?

After reading the article "Booting Down", it got me thinking... is multi-tasking between so many different pieces of technology distracting me from my real work? Am I just like the students in the article referred to as the "dumbest genreation" made up of "multi-tastking slackers"? Nahh.... not me :P

Well, maybe.

I currently have countless Internet Explorer windows and tabs open and another handful of programs running as well. My school email is a must to have open... I need to be constantly checking it throughout my day along with trying to move ahead with the other countless tasks and projects on my "To Do" list. Then there are the other interuptions... "excuse me, can you...?" If I didn't know how to multi-task, I'd be in big trouble. And probably in a different job and line of work right now.

However, when it comes down to wire and I have a deadline for something due... I find myself shutting out all of my districtions and buckling down to the task at hand... well, except for maybe my iPod playing music or listening to some Jazz hits on my Pandora station... I find music helps me to focus on the task at hand-- just music and not music videos. (YouTube, you are a horrible distraction to me!)

Of course hands down, my number one distraction is my cell phone. If I hope to accomplish anything, I have to shut it off or put it on silent and force myself not to look at it. I have three different email accounts hooked up to it along with all of the apps... what happened to phones being just phones?

I think it is important to be able to recognize what you need to do to get a task/project done. If you need to shut off all electronic devices, do it. If you can manage to still be connected to the world while completing tasks/projects-- go for it. I think that students probably need to do some self-reflection in order to recognize how much technology they are able to use while still be productive.

Oh, and Jetta guy this morning I saw on the highway who was texting and gently swerving around his lane, stop it. That's just too much technology.

Add a Dash of Humor...

Technology not working? Frustrated? Don't worry about it...

Reach for the stars with technology and you may come up short...

Be nice to the techie... they suffer thru a lot...

Just a few tid-bits of humor to brighten your day... it'll be fine and yes, we are past the halfway point.