Introduction
Hello World,
I am Tech Teacher, and if you have any experience with technology, you get the humor in hello world. This is my first attempt at a blog, so hang in there with me while I share my feelings and opinons on technology and education.
I should start off in saying that I am not a teacher, although I am going to school to become one. I have a degree in computer science, and after spending some time in the field, I decided that I would rather teach than do what I was doing. When I made the decision, I was a system admin at a medium sized bank. We had 15 location, over 1500 end users when I left, 12 windows 2000 servers, one unix box, we ran a compiled network of everything from dial-up users on modems, to dedicated lines between the remote sites and our unix box running at 1200bps, and had 6 locations converted to T-1 lines, with IP phones at 3 locations. This was in 2005, and the IT staff, including me, was two people.
Before I started working at the bank, I had some IT friends who told me that a bank is very tight with their money, and they don't like spending it on IT related items. This, to a certain degree, was true. While I was there, we built two new locations, and remodeled another location. These were the three locations that ended up with the IP phones. The bank had no problem spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at these locations on IT related items, but as far as the other locations, as long as they worked, why upgrade them? It made no difference to them that when we had to do upgrades to computers at the remote locations, we had to drive there, or if they had a problem with a computer, 6 times out of 10 we would have to drive there. Many loan officers did not have e-mail, or even internet access, and the ones that did were connected at 56kbs.
Most end users were less than inclined, and many of the problems that consumed our day could have been resolved if the users had been a little more computer literate. The mentality at the bank was that the end users only needed to know enough to get there jobs done. Although this may have been a good mindset in most cases, if something small were to disrupt a user, they would not know how to recover.
It was these issues that made me decide to go back to school. I had always had an interest in teaching, as half my family either teach or have taught at one time. I have a year before I start my student teaching, and this is where I plan on keeping my thoughts throughout the next year and beyond.
Updated -- Oct. 28, 2005
As I am writting some of these posts, I have decided that this is where I am going to put some of my ideas, before I become corrupted by the system. Hopefully this will help me with my grass roots, real world teaching skills, that I want to teach to students.
I am Tech Teacher, and if you have any experience with technology, you get the humor in hello world. This is my first attempt at a blog, so hang in there with me while I share my feelings and opinons on technology and education.
I should start off in saying that I am not a teacher, although I am going to school to become one. I have a degree in computer science, and after spending some time in the field, I decided that I would rather teach than do what I was doing. When I made the decision, I was a system admin at a medium sized bank. We had 15 location, over 1500 end users when I left, 12 windows 2000 servers, one unix box, we ran a compiled network of everything from dial-up users on modems, to dedicated lines between the remote sites and our unix box running at 1200bps, and had 6 locations converted to T-1 lines, with IP phones at 3 locations. This was in 2005, and the IT staff, including me, was two people.
Before I started working at the bank, I had some IT friends who told me that a bank is very tight with their money, and they don't like spending it on IT related items. This, to a certain degree, was true. While I was there, we built two new locations, and remodeled another location. These were the three locations that ended up with the IP phones. The bank had no problem spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at these locations on IT related items, but as far as the other locations, as long as they worked, why upgrade them? It made no difference to them that when we had to do upgrades to computers at the remote locations, we had to drive there, or if they had a problem with a computer, 6 times out of 10 we would have to drive there. Many loan officers did not have e-mail, or even internet access, and the ones that did were connected at 56kbs.
Most end users were less than inclined, and many of the problems that consumed our day could have been resolved if the users had been a little more computer literate. The mentality at the bank was that the end users only needed to know enough to get there jobs done. Although this may have been a good mindset in most cases, if something small were to disrupt a user, they would not know how to recover.
It was these issues that made me decide to go back to school. I had always had an interest in teaching, as half my family either teach or have taught at one time. I have a year before I start my student teaching, and this is where I plan on keeping my thoughts throughout the next year and beyond.
Updated -- Oct. 28, 2005
As I am writting some of these posts, I have decided that this is where I am going to put some of my ideas, before I become corrupted by the system. Hopefully this will help me with my grass roots, real world teaching skills, that I want to teach to students.
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