Sydna's Timeline

By sgraf
  • Man on the moon
    1969 BCE

    Man on the moon

    I remember this because my parents wouldn't let me stay up to watch the grainy black and white images on our small TV. Even so young, I was fascinated.
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    Sydna's Timeline

    My life in technology
  • Microsoft Corporation started

    Microsoft Corporation started

    This was the beginning of this massive billionaire spawning business. We had no idea at the time how much it would change our lives.
  • IBM Introduces a PC with Standard Hard Drive

    IBM Introduces a PC with Standard Hard Drive

    This was a year before I graduated high school. However, I don't remember anyone owning a PC until I was in college and a student going to graduate school had one.
  • Personal Camcorders

    Personal Camcorders

    Yeah! Finally we could record our lives without having a huge camera that had to be held on our shoulders.
  • DVDs invented

    DVDs invented

    And now we had to buy yet another machine to play movies!
  • Facebook

    Facebook

    I didn't get Facebook until my kids did. Some of them wouldn't friend me at first. They thought they could hide online. Ha, ha!
  • My first mobile phone

    My first mobile phone

    I was 40 when I got my first mobile phone; it was life changing. Now I couldn't live without one.
  • Mac!

    Mac!

    I love my Mac. I first learned to love Apple and Macs when I became the computer lab aide at Willow Springs, before I came back to teaching. It helped update my computer skills.
  • iPad

    iPad

    I used my iPad extensively when I taught math. I especially loved the app "Explain Everything."
  • Google Tools

    Google Tools

    And now I'm considering getting an Ed. Tech degree. How far I've come!