The Beginning

I have been fascinated with the blogs others have created. This is the beginning of a venture to contribute my own blog as a part of my studies through a University of Missouri distance education course. Undoubtedly, I will make many mistakes and learn from those errors throughout the next six weeks.

If my memory is correct, our family purchased a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer in 1982. http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=91

This was replaced by a Commodore 64 that is pictured above. http://oldcomputers.net/c64.html

I took an evening course in BASIC programming at school in Junior High. It took me many hours of painstaking typing to write a program that would run a couple of seconds. I had no idea that the personal computer would revolutionize communication and education around the world. I wasn't interested in computer games and the computer received little use from me. I used a computer program for word processing in 1987 and sent my first electronic communication message in 1991 when I worked for the Department of the Air Force as a civilian Morale, Welfare, Recreation Specialist through the Palace Acquire program.

My daughter began utilizing Reader Rabbit Toddler at age 3. Fortunately, she is very comfortable with the computer and has been teaching her three year old brother. I hope to utilize this blog to review education software and websites that will continue to enhance her education.