I have taken the plunge. Better late than never. An EverydayGuy has a BLOG.
Thanks for stopping in and checking on my business..no pun intended!
Yes, I will be writing and sharing my small steps (efforts) in learning what I can about living and surviving in the online world. I am 45 years old and am starting to understand what most must feel like as they get older as the world dramatically changes around them.
When I was graduating college, one of the last classes I took to help prepare me for teaching (Successfully completed Small Step NO. 1) was a detailed prep of what and how to use of all the classroom tools I would be using. Things you would find in the Audio Visual dept. You know, like film strip machines, 8 milimeter film projectors, overhead projectors, and the blue ink mimeograph (sp?)..that produced the worksheets everyone would always inhale deeply from with a just off the machine copy!
That was the year 1980! Really not that long ago. Within 3 years of taking this class, those blue ink inhaler sheets were a thing of the past, replaced by the Xerox copy. Poor kids. I think the last sniff of that ink was sometime in the middle 80s by those lucky kids that got stuck having language arts class with the teacher in their last year before retirement - the one bucking progress.
I knew that old timer was ME when in the 18th year of my career, there was a teacher using an old 16 mm film projector (why? I don't know nor have I any idea how it had survived in being kept around so long), and the film got caught up so that the frames were skipping . Remember that?
So the teacher had NO idea how to fix it. And she called for help to the teacher next door. He was clueless. So they called the office. And no one there knew what to do, including the administrator.
But the administrator, who makes the big bucks because of their acute skill in making the right decisions, KNEW who to call..........
I was summoned because as it was quoted, "Phil was around when they used to use these!"
And guess what. I walked into that classroom and simply reset the thing-a-ma-jig, and the film returned to a clear picture just like that! LOL Those kids were in awe!
So here I am today, stepping into a vastly different world that moves at a pace of change like NEVER before. You will indeed find a story filled with SMALL STEPS.
It's especially tough for an EverydayGuy.
Thanks for stopping in and checking on my business..no pun intended!
Yes, I will be writing and sharing my small steps (efforts) in learning what I can about living and surviving in the online world. I am 45 years old and am starting to understand what most must feel like as they get older as the world dramatically changes around them.
When I was graduating college, one of the last classes I took to help prepare me for teaching (Successfully completed Small Step NO. 1) was a detailed prep of what and how to use of all the classroom tools I would be using. Things you would find in the Audio Visual dept. You know, like film strip machines, 8 milimeter film projectors, overhead projectors, and the blue ink mimeograph (sp?)..that produced the worksheets everyone would always inhale deeply from with a just off the machine copy!
That was the year 1980! Really not that long ago. Within 3 years of taking this class, those blue ink inhaler sheets were a thing of the past, replaced by the Xerox copy. Poor kids. I think the last sniff of that ink was sometime in the middle 80s by those lucky kids that got stuck having language arts class with the teacher in their last year before retirement - the one bucking progress.
I knew that old timer was ME when in the 18th year of my career, there was a teacher using an old 16 mm film projector (why? I don't know nor have I any idea how it had survived in being kept around so long), and the film got caught up so that the frames were skipping . Remember that?
So the teacher had NO idea how to fix it. And she called for help to the teacher next door. He was clueless. So they called the office. And no one there knew what to do, including the administrator.
But the administrator, who makes the big bucks because of their acute skill in making the right decisions, KNEW who to call..........
I was summoned because as it was quoted, "Phil was around when they used to use these!"
And guess what. I walked into that classroom and simply reset the thing-a-ma-jig, and the film returned to a clear picture just like that! LOL Those kids were in awe!
So here I am today, stepping into a vastly different world that moves at a pace of change like NEVER before. You will indeed find a story filled with SMALL STEPS.
It's especially tough for an EverydayGuy.
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