Anthropological Assessment of Thorne Bay School's Technology

Over the last month and a half I have been swamped by the technology culture at our school. In order to complete this assignment I actually got it done early in the semester anticipating a flood of work into the quarter.  So as the the deadline approached, I went to figure out the Google docs and prepared to post my anthropological observations.  I observed that I had no idea where or how I saved them.  Since that unfortunate experience I have completely familiarized myself with the searching capabilities on my computer.  

In an attempt to make my VTC Biology class more user friendly, I have the students on accounts with several websites that go along with their textbooks.  I developed my own website for the class and got it published to our server. At the same time I crashed the school's calendar system because I added too many attachments. I have been working with the tech department to get applications installed on my computer in order to take advantage of some of the online Biology programs.  The grading for the quarter was challenging as I was just given an account with the online gradebook.  The database for entering grades through our school was also a challenge as I hadn't been put into the database.  During a routine screen sharing to monitor students I observed some violations of their user agreements for their computers.  That turned into a huge issue that took up a lot of my time, but also brought attention to the rest of the students that they are responsible for the material on their computers.  My students have developed podcasts, started their own blogs, do PowerPoints routinely, and are constantly.  

So as the time rolled on and the due date was maonths behind I have delved deeply into my schools technology culture.  So now that I have revisited the technology culture of my school I really didn't have to do any research I relied completely on participant observation, I had been through the trenches and here it is, the document on Google that is also saved in several locations on my computer, a thumb drive and also an external hard drive.