It’s been a while since I’ve had time to post to my blog. I’ve taken a graduate networking class since my last post. It was perhaps one of the most useful classes that I’ve taken so far. I did a long report on the advantages and disadvantages of Bluetooth. One of my friends recently bought a new Acura with Bluetooth capabilities. She said, she was going to have to go buy a Bluetooth cell phone. Hee, hee!! Goes to show how little the average citizen knows about Bluetooth. Bluetooth is simply a short range wireless network. It was a satisfying experience to be able to educate my friend as I know that she’s a person who uses e-mail sparingly and uses the Internet to make hotel and travel arrangements. The problem with being older is that, unless you use a computer for employment or are a person who is naturally inquisitive about the latest and greatest technologies, you can’t possibly keep up with the ever changing technology. It makes me so glad that I’m in graduate school and never seem to stop learning.
I’m now taking a statistics course. But it has a new twist. It’s geared toward the everyday use of statistics in standardized testing. I took a statistics course in another graduate program that was all mathematics. We never used it to actually interpret test scores, which is what we use statistics for in education. If you haven’t explored using EXCEL with statistics, DO! It’s great!!
I’ll add more later, after I’ve struggled through the statistics course. Learning is not always fun, but having learned it fun. That’s why I’ll never look at students as our customers using the business model of education. Customer satisfaction is NOT guaranteed in education.
