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For most of my childhood we listened to Christmas music on our record player that sat in a big wood cabinet. I still love the sound of Bing Crosby or the Osmond Family. We had an 8-track player in the same cabinet.
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I remember going to the Drive-In to see movies. I'm pretty sure I saw ET there. I remember having nightmare about it after.
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I remember that we had computers at school. My favorite game to play was the Oregon Trail. I also remember Number Munchers.
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There were no DVR's, Hulu, or Netflix when I was little. If you wanted to watch a show later, you recorded it on VHS. If you wanted to watch your favorite Disney movie you bout it on VHS also.
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I remember our family owning an Atari probably when I was 4 years old. We would play games like Pong, Pac Man, and Snake.
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When I was little we had a typewriter in our home that remember typing on and playing with.
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We listened to music on cassette tapes because CD's and MP3's weren't around yet. Instead of IPODS and phones, we carried Walkmans.
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My grandmother still had a rotary phone in her home when I was a child. Unlike teenagers today, I knew how to use it.
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We owned a Zenith TV. If you wanted to watch tv back in the day the antenna had to be just right. I can't remember when we finally had cable.
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When I was about 8 years old the Nintendo NES came out. We enjoyed playing Super Mario Brothers, and Duck Hunt.
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If you wanted to talk to your friends on the phone in my house, you usually made the call from the kitchen. There wasn't much privacy as you could only leave the room as far as the cord would allow.
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I remember that around the time I was in 6th grade, our family had a computer similar to this one. We used soft floppy disks, and later the smaller hard disks came out.
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Prodigy was introduced around 1988. My sister and I enjoyed getting onto the chat rooms.
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This was one of my favorite games to play on the Nintendo. I loved that you could twirl your tail and fly.
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When my older sister was around 18 and I was 12, she was gifted a CD player by a boy that liked her. One of the albums I remembered her having was Donny Osmond's "Soldier of Love". I would still listen to cassette tapes all through high school.
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... and my checking account began shrinking
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When I first began attending college, computers were huge and bulky still. They looked like these. Digital cameras weren't around yet, only film.
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I was talked into my first cell phone by a boy I liked at my college, who happened to be selling them for MCI. My first cell carrier service was horrible. For what I paid, which wasn't cheap, I was give 30 MINUTES a month! It was basically my emergency phone. Total garbage plan.
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In 1998 my uncle and aunt gifted me my first CD player for Christmas. I also got my first car, a Chevy Corsica.The radio didn't work so I had a nice CD player installed. That's when I started buying CD's.
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I'm not sure exactly when I began emailing, but I remember for sure emailing people the summer I graduated from high school.
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Around 2004, I remember getting a cell phone again. I can't recall if I had one in the years prior. This is when I first remember texting on a phone.
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My Space was one of the first experiences I had with social media. Also, online dating sites such as LDS Singles.com, and LDS Mingles, became popular. More people were finding people to date online.
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People still burned CDs and DVDs but flash drives had been introduced and were being used more often.
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In 2005 my boyfriend, now husband, gave me an IPOD shuffle for Christmas. He had an IPOD. I for the longest time could not wrap my head around ITUNES and what an MP3 was.
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My husband also introduced me to TIVO when we were dating. We would binge watch 24 with Jack Bauer. My mind was blown!
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While getting my teaching degree I purchased for myself a DELL laptop. When I compere it to my laptops today, it was quite bulky.
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Around the time I married Adam, more and more people were owners of flat screen tv's. We got our first flat screen soon after. Growing up, only the very wealthy usually had bulky, big screen tvs in their house. Now just about everyone had one.
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In 2008 my friend talked me into signing up for Facebook. My husband has cursed her ever since.
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When I first began teaching, we used overhead projectors. It meant you had to be very prepared and run off everything in advance. They were bulky and hard to maneuver around classrooms without someone tripping on the electric cord.
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We purchased a Wii in 2010. It was amazing to me that you could move the character on screen just by turning your remote with your hand, wrist, etc.
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In the late 2000s to present day, streaming services arrived. Favorites like Netflix, Hulu, and Sling allowed you to catch up on missed shows whenever it was convenient. Video and music stores became ancient history as everything began to stream online. Roku remotes and TVs allow you to access many apps.
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Another term I couldn't wrap my head around for the longest time was "The Cloud". The cloud was a way of storing information digitally and online. Google Drive was used to save and to share files with others. Pictures could also be saved and backed up to this online storage unit.
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Around 2013 I got one of my first smart phones. I can use it to look at Pinterest, Instagram, find my way on Google Maps, Facebook, and so many other things.
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In 2015 I returned to teaching after 5 years away raising my babies. I was handed an IPAD which I had never used before. Technology had changed a lot in 5 years. .
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In 2015, hallelujah, the doc cam was in the classroom when I came back to testing. This and the ceiling projector is a teacher's best friend.
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Currently there are many, MANY great apps and programs out there for instruction. One interactive site is Nearpod. Students are able to explore a concept and teachers are able to monitor and guide that instruction.
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Phones have come a long ways since the rotary telephones of the past. Now many phones allow you to video chat or to use the phone as a walkie talkie and leave video messages. Virtual fieldtrips are possible as students can speak with and learn from a specialist online. You can even speak with a doctor over a video appointment on your phone.
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Began teaching with Google Classroom and using the app Band for Classroom Communication
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In 2018 and today, smart home assistants have been all the rage.
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In recent years, the ability to code for a computer has received a lot of attention. I began learning some of the technology to pass on to my class.
