I was excited on my car ride home from St. Louis last Sunday (Feb 1) to discover that I could access Blackboard on my husband’s new cell phone. He has an HTC Touch Pro and the web browswer on that thing is really great. I have a Palm Centro, which allows me to use some web applications such as Facebook, etc, but not Blackboard.
So I spent time on our 3 hour car ride home, reading posts. I couldn’t however bring myself to respond. There were several I wanted to answer, but the keyboard on the phone was just to little. I marked the ones I wanted to respond to as unread and went back to them Monday or Tuesday.
We are talking this week in class about the effects of new technology replacing old. This new cell phone technology and the ability to be online just about anywhere at anytime, is amazing. For us, it might be life changing. My husband really wants to go back to driving a semi-truck, but wants us to go with him. 10 years ago, it just wouldn’t have been possible. But today, I could potentially still work, “home school” my son with a virtual school, go to school myself and stay in touch with all friends and family, all while in the passengers seat of a semi-truck. It’s crazy to me but also really cool!
