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Welcome to Planning for Technology! This course promises to be a great learning experience all of us. Before we get started into the work required of us, let's take a few moments to get to know one another.

Introduction Assignment:
For this introduction assignment, you will each post a picture of yourself into the table below, and write a short paragraph about yourself, from the perspective of your pet, favorite piece of technology or furniture. Your paragraph may explain your career, hobbies, interests, or professional goals.

Due Wednesday, June 21

 * 1) Create a Wikispaces Account (it is free and you will probably use it after the course!) Click [|here] to create your account.
 * 2) Take or find a picture of yourself.
 * 3) Sign into Wikispaces.
 * 4) Click the "Edit This Page" button at the top of this page.
 * 5) Scroll down to the table and click inside the table cell to the right of your name and write a short paragraph about yourself from the perspective of your pet, favorite piece of technology or furniture.
 * 6) Next, click your mouse inside the cell with your name in it and click the Images and Files icon at the top of the page. Click the "Upload" tab to upload and insert your picture (a new window will pop up, click browse, find your picture on your computer, then click upload).
 * 7) Double click on your picture in that window to insert it into the table (a small window will pop up giving you the option to align and size your photo...click the - sign until your picture is about the size of the one I posted to get you started) (another way to reduce the size is by actually clicking the picture and resizing it manually)
 * 8) **Click the "Save" button in the upper right corner of the window.**
 * 9) Contact me if you have any problems, if you see that these directions are missing a step or are a bit unclear....feel free to edit them, that is the power of a wiki!

Ted Lysiak || My name is Mac and I am a Chocolate Lab. My owner, Ted, takes great care of me. He loves me so much, he just moved the whole family (his lovely wife Maria and two boys, Austin (7) and Colin (6) to a farm in Garrettsville. He built them a house and a new one for me too! Ted works a bunch...he does something with computers in a school district called 'Euclid'. When he is not working and spending time with me and the family, he loves to go hunting, fishing, camping, and work outside. Lately, coaching both of his sons' baseball teams is keeping him very busy! || I'm on left, Rose Marie is on right. Love her facial expression! || Hi, I am Tamela's cell phone #|new cell phone. She is the lady that keeps me charged! Tamela takes me everywhere with her. When she's busy, like when she's teaching #|teaching at Copley High School, I stay in her purse. It's dark in there. I really don't like it much. When she's just lounging around the house #|house with her kids, Rose Marie, Scott, and Elizabeth, she usually keeps me in her pocket. The best part is when I vibrate, then I know she will be bringing me into the light. This is when I get to hear her sweet voice or have her tickle my tummy when she texts. She seems to enjoy tickling me! Lately, I have gotten to wake her up because right now she is coordinating the OGT testing at school. She is looking forward to her missions trip to Cuba and her family vacation. I don't get to go to Cuba because there is NO reception there. But I will go to Myrtyle Beach!! When she's not working, we go to the pool at her friend's house, hang out with the family, or visit friends. She even lets me ride with her when she mows the lawn--that's her favorite thing to do:) We have lots of fun together. || || Hi, my name is Dream. I am an eight year old black lab. I see I could make some friends around here!! I live in the county with my owners Jodi and her husband Mike and daughter Jenna. She is one year old and she likes to pay lots of attention to me! Jodi teaches First Grade at Waterloo Local Schools and Mike works at Robinson Memorial Hospital. I love the summer because I lay in the shade while Jodi and Jenna play outside. I think Jenna keeps Jodi pretty busy but now she is going to be extra busy because she is taking some classes. She only has a few more classes to finish her Master's Degree. She is interested in running and being outside as much as possible! || || Hi, I'm Polsky 334F, aka, Sandie Crawford's office, where she works diligently everyday as the new director for developmental programs at Summit College. Sandie spends more time with me than she does at home! She works late hours racking her brains trying to find ways to help the faculty in her department embrace and use more technology as a part of instructional design and delivery in the college classroom. Sandie spend countless hours working with faculty to help them transition under a change in leadership and direction for the department of developmental programs. I am where she collects and stores volumes of books and information about higher education administration, developmental education and learning assistance, program evaluation, classroom assessment, and much more. Sandie has decided to enroll in this course to help her create an effective strategy plan for implementating new technology in a department where most are comfortable with the lecture format as their primary mode of instruction. Sandie hopes to inspire faculty to explore more creative and innovative ways to actively engage students in the learning process through the use of technology. || (New Zealand--January 2010) || Our names are Hines and Otis (Hines the Black Lab and Otis the Basset Hound) and we live with our owner Libbi and her husband Graig. Libbi works as a teacher so we love it in the summer when she is around more during the day because we get to go for more walks and play in the yard. Sometimes we even walk up to the ice cream stand down the street and get a little treat. Our family has a cottage in Pennsylvania and Libbi and Graig love to go there on weekends and usually we get to go too. It's so much fun to take walks at the nearby springs and swim in the pond. The two of them also love mountain biking and Hines loves to run the trails with them but I, Otis, sit that one out at home and rest up for their return. Libbi, I know I'm probably not supposed to type on your space. . . but I was wondering where that picture was taken. I lived in Wellington for over a year! - Matt || Josh Fulton || ====== ======
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I am MacbookPro, and I will be keeping Josh connected to the outside world while he recovers from ankle/foot surgery over the next couple of months. Josh really enjoys using me to play fantasy baseball, and he’s always using my “Stickies” application so he doesn’t forget things. He also loves taking me along on road trips so he can watch movies in the car. When he is on his feet, Josh likes to conveniently take me to the kitchen and use me as a recipe book while he cooks.====== || Nicole thanks for the help I figure out that I had to be logged in to Upload a file. || I am Max and I will be two years old at the end of July. My owners Ben and Kirstie are very good to me and I follow them everywhere. When Ben goes for a run on the track I go with him and run most of the three miles, which is hard with my little legs. When Ben or Kirstie are working on lesson plans or grad work on their laptops I like to craw up on their laps and type the keys. This summer has not been all that fun for me as I had to spend a week at Kirstie’s parent’s house as Ben and Kirstie went out west and I will be sending another week over there as they go to Myrtle Beach. I miss them when they are gone. || || Hi. I'm a MacBook and I am used constantly by my owner Nikki. She bought me after she graduated from Kent State University with her undergraduate degree 2 years ago. She started using me all the time to learn the Adobe Master's Suite so she can teach her students at North Canton Hoover High School. She loves teaching and using me to make various projects and assignments for her students. She also uses me a lot to complete her homework assignments for her Masters degree in Instructional Technology as well as for various personal activities such as banking, reading news stories, listening to music, etc. When she's not using me she's helping coach her sister's fast pitch team, working at her part-time summer job, or just lounging around and enjoying summer break! || || Hi. I am Abbey the Honda Accord. Sarah has been my owner for 3 years now. She purchased me when she started her first teaching job at St. Hilary school. Since then, I allow her to travel from Seven Hills to Fairlawn to get to work. She also uses me to travel to many other places. She takes me up to Cleveland when she works for the Indians all summer long. We travel to Columbus to visit her brother Jeff, sister in law Rachael, and nephew, Daniel. Sometimes she travels to Youngstown to visit her brother, Bryan. She is happy when she does not have to travel far to be with her mom, dad and sister, Jenny. Other places we go are the bowling alley where Sarah is happy to have a 160 average and to the beach, where Sarah plays in a beach volleyball league. These are her two favorite hobbies. I am not very happy when she brings the sand back with her though. It is very uncomfortable for me! :) || (This is a picture of my sisters and me. I'm in the center.) || Hello, everyone! I’m Alfred, Anna’s TV. I’m always on whenever either Anna or her husband, George, is home. However, it seems like they hardly ever actually watch me! Anna is usually at the dining room table behind her laptop with books all around her, and George is usually reading or cleaning around. It seems like they use me for background noise! Their apartment is 2 bedrooms so I know they can hear me from wherever they are. They only time they actually sit down and watch me is when they eat dinner or watch Blu-rays on my buddy, Bob, the PS3. During the school year, I always saw Anna create lesson plans on her laptop for her 7th and 8th graders’ English classes at St. Hilary School in Fairlawn, which is pretty far from where Anna, George, and I live in Mayfield Heights. When Anna’s sisters, parents, or in-laws come over (which is quite frequently), I always get used! I think I love Anna’s family as much as she does! || || Hello! I'm Brutus, Leann's American Bulldog. I can usually be found playing or cuddling with her 7 year old daughter Lexi. I also love when Leann and her boyfriend, Jacob take me for walks! Leann is usually pretty busy spending time with her daughter, coaching and playing soccer, or sitting behind her laptop trying to stay caught up in her school work. She also enjoys sewing, scrap booking and jewelry making. Even though it is obvious she is enjoying her summer--she tries to ignore me in the morning when I'm ready to get up--she is already getting ready for next school year. She is moving to a new building and teaching 2 new subjects so I think she is a little nervous! I'm excited for Leann to get closer to completing her degree with this class because I know it is something she really looks forward to using in her classroom! || || Hi, I'm Charlotte's Futon Mattress, I am unnamed although I have heard Charlotte's husband call me comfortable. I was a birthday present for Charlotte a couple of years ago - I'm not sure why she wanted me since she rarely sits on me. On the occasions when she does sitfile:///Users/Jen/Downloads/24891_376095644486_562739486_3408804_6350504_n-1.jpgstill she appears to prefer a kitchen chair in front of that black thing she calls a laptop. I do get a lot of use from her two file:///Users/Jen/Downloads/24891_376095644486_562739486_3408804_6350504_n-1.jpg, Kyle who is 10 and Paige who is 8 -1/2 (don't forget the 1/2) plus occasionally the two cats or the very large dog will take the opportunity to sneak on me. I guess I understand, being a mom is busy enough work but now she is also a teacher at Summit Academy in Parma. She just finished her first year of teaching so hopefully she will have more time to spend with me and the family next year. || || Hello! I am Dolce, Lisa's dog. I came to live with Lisa and her family last year after a sheriff's deputy rescued me from a very mean man. I call Lisa, "mom" and her husband Michael, "dad" because they take such good care of me. For instance, when they go to the tennis courts, they bring me along and I chase after and chew the tennis balls and they don't even get mad at me! Now that it is summer, we even go to Lake Erie and ride and sleep in a boat. When we are at home, I get to go for walks and runs with members of the family. There is Mikey the son and two daughters named Amelia and Kaitlyn. Mom teaches sixth grade at Highland Middle School in the Highland Local School District where she also coaches the high school varsity girl's and boy's tennis teams. This keeps her very busy and makes me be home alone sometimes. I like to tell her how much I don't like this by chewing her shoes. When she is at home, she sits on the couch with me looking at this black thing.She says that she is learning how to use technology to be a better teacher. She spends a lot of time using that black thing and I am beginning to resent it. One day when she leaves it out, I am going to have to see how it tastes! || || My name is iMac, and I’m a new addition to the Riley family. My owner, Andrea, deserted the Windows world after way too many crashes and issues with her HP computer. I know Andrea really well. She spends quite a bit of time just staring at me. She thinks I’m great for browsing the internet, blogging, helping her edit pictures, and, of course, working on college projects. She’s married, but I think she might be a bit obsessed with me. :D Every once in a while, Andrea’s children beg for computer time too. Her two boys love to play Thomas the Tank Engine games online. Her daughter doesn’t pay me much attention. She’s too busy hanging out with another Mac member of the family, the “big ipod touch” (aka the iPad). When Andrea can pull herself away from my glorious presence, she spends her time hanging out with family, taking photos, playing the piano, and reading. Oh...and she leaves me for 10 or so hours a day to teach children with special needs at Cloverleaf Middle School. || || Hello! My name is Freckles and I'm an orange, fluffy cat. My owner, Amber, adopted me, along with her husband, Brandon, almost 3 years ago. They picked me up from a vet's office, where I was dropped off at. I'm very fortunate that they adopted me and gave me a wonderful home, because, since I have feline leukemia, I spent most of my time alone at the vet's. Now I get to spend a lot of my time with Brandon, since he owns his own computer business and runs it from home. Amber leaves in the morning to head off to school but we do get to spend our evenings together. Amber teaches 3rd, 4th and 5th grade special education for Brunswick City Schools. On weekends, Amber and Brandon either head back home to PA or have family and/or friends visiting. I always get worried when I hear that Amber's niece, Danica, is coming for a visit. She likes to chase me around the house. I love having a family though; wouldn't change my life for anything! || || Hi, my name is Gideon! I'm a big mutt of a cross between an Irish Wolf Hound and a German Shepherd and interestingly enough my owner, Matt, is of German-Irish heritage as well! As you can tell from the picture I like to play soccer. Matt is very good at it and he spends a lot of time coaching now but I'm better than he is :) Matt just finished his first year of teaching and I'm glad because between that, this IT master's and coaching soccer and wrestling he //almost never// has time to play with me :( And then there is that little girl Adelina, she is about to turn one and she takes even more of his time. Until she started walking last week she wasn't very fun to play with but it's getting better, I'm probably going to let him keep her. We'll see. We live in Ravenna where Matt teaches and grew up but his wife, Laura, grew up in Kentucky. I used to get to visit there all the time but it's harder now with Addie so I generally go over to play with Matt's parents' dog. Oh, Well. At least he is home for the summer! Matt, we were in Christchrurch. There were about 14 of us visiting some missionaries that our church supports. It was absolutely beautiful and we really want to go back. My husband wants to move there...ha ha! -Libbi ||
 * Ben Mahas
 * Nicole Makowski
 * Sarah Modzelewski
 * Anna Peko
 * Leann Pullum
 * Charlotte Ray
 * Lisa Reynolds
 * Andrea Riley
 * Amber Urda
 * Matt Wunderle