Hi everyone:
I think I have this working...........now. This shot is from a European trip in 2007. My wife and I went over there on a 15 day tour. This shot is over looking the River Rhine. Truly breathtaking view. The picture doesn't really do it justice. As the song says, "you really had to be there." May change the scenery from time to time. Enjoy the view!!
Clyde
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This is my first blog in response to the article by Marc Prensky - "Backup Education?"
ReplyDeleteI'm probably older than most of the people taking this course, just guessing. Upon reading this, I felt that instead of giving us his ideas about technology, he had to include, at least that's my perception, his views about teachers he feels are out dated and already archived. Here's a few thoughts.
I'm a technology guy who loves digital recording, but, still enjoys the high level of skill it takes to record on my Tascam 16 track reel to reel(analog). I have to get it right or it sounds like......awful!! However, with the digital technology, I can tweak that mistake or miscarriage of vocal recording until it sounds decent. I believe the vocals in Cher's last recording was digitally enhanced. Sounded like a robot singing. The studio was criticized for that. You hardly know what is real vocals anymore. Technology is a great enhancer of our profession, not the savior.
I was viewing an article on PBS not long ago and the professors in certain universities (USA)were concerned that students coming into their classes couldn't spell properly or write. They questioned the school systems that allowed that to happen. Me too. Case in point.
Last June, I was addressing my grade 12 music class. I asked a question concerning whether or not they could do the basics of multiplying, division, mentally, without assistance. I gave them several examples and I was amazed. Most of them looked at each other and asked me if I had a calculator. I could hardly believe it. Our school permits calculators in exams. Students can't calculate solutions mentally, or the "old way" anymore. Wrong by me. Always have a back up plan, that's what I was taught or plan B.
Speaking about "basics." Prensky babbles on about the progression about Math "basics", communications, writing and how we have progressed and don't need to remember even how to read, just listen to a recorder. Even companies have back up files for their accounts, etc.
Well, I'm a sailor. And as much as I love the chart plotter, radar and GPS, I'd better know the "basics" if they suddenly quit, which they are prone to do. Nothing is perfect, technology is a tool and maybe the sailor who forgets all about the "basics."