Technology as Addiction

It's 2:11 a.m. on Wednesday morning. I have been working on a grant that needs to go in the mail Thursday. Cool project. We're hoping to expand the pilot work we've been doing with the higher end folks at JIRDC in Morganton, beginning readers as opposed to emergent. And planning to use some technologies to personalize the process.

In any case, for who knows what reason, I just checked my blog while getting information on books for adult new readers. I find 2 pictures in my sidebar. Horrors. Can't let that stay. I realize I've figured out two separate ways to get pictures into my sidebar. One through Dashboard and the profiles--tiny picture, one by copying and pasting some html code I found somewhere and placing the url of the picture I wanted to use.

This is both incredibly mundane and simultaneously very exciting to me. Technology takes on significantly more interest and power when you can use it to accomplish something personal. I'm thinking blogs might be a really motivating way to get techno-phobes hooked, so that they could begin thinking about other tech applications for their students.

Back to the grant. TTFN.