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journal entry #1

This weeks reading, Your Google Guide by Doug Johnson discusses the usage and the concepts behind the google craze. Now a days everyone uses google, before this invention there was an advanced search engine that could search information on the web regarding a certain topic or even a person. Google can sometimes be dangerous because any information on the web can be found about a certain person, often times employers google their employees and even people can goolge their significant other. The author gives helpful search methods to help the googler find what they are looking for on the web by using a few keywords to help simplify the search. There are certain types of searches that google can provide including an image search, scholar search, book search, and a map search. 

Questions: 1.)What is the best way to find information using Google on American Airlines? The best way to find information on the web  regarding American Airlines would be to do an advanced search by typing in "American Airlines" not just "American" or "airlines" because you would receive a whole bunch of information to do with americans an airlines. You must be case specific and make sure you have the correct spelling of the search word.  

2.)How can you use google to find a information on a certain person? First you need to know the full name of the person, for example if you wanted to find information about me, Angela Salemme, you would put in my full name in the search part. Then another way is to add keywords to the name especially if the person has a really common name. But in my case not to many people have my name, but if they did you could find me in particular by adding the keyword "yoga" and that would bring up information on me.  

self introduction assignement

My technology experience is technically still in the works. I am in the process of finishing the computer competency requirement (the ccr exam), i have completed 3 out of the 4 parts to the exam and all I have left is the spreadsheet excel part of the exam. I'm taking the final part of the exam this Wednesday and am hoping to pass it although i need to brush up on my excel skills. After i have finished that part I will be in the clear and finished with the CCR. In certain ways I feel like I am sometimes computer iliterate and am constantly learning new things about technology and how to work with computers. I am very familiar with only a few websites including facebook, of course, and mindbodyonline which is a website i use at the yoga studios in order to check people into my classes.
Although I never really considered it before, I am already a teacher. I have been teaching yoga for 2 years now and have even taught kids yoga classes. I have one more full semester left at Cal State before I finish my undergrad in Spanish language and culture and am starting some prereqs for the speech pathology program starting here in Fall '10. Last semester for my span 399 internship class, I got a chance to work at a bilingual spanish imersion school and was placed in 7th and 8th grade classrooms where i volunteered throughout the semester for a total of 50 hours. It was a great experience and i loved working with the kids.
I hope to recieve a greater knowledge of computers by taking this class. This class will also help me learn more about my own computer since we will be working with macs the entire time. I also hope to be able to apply these technical skills in a classroom setting someday and use the methods learned to be a more effective teacher.