The New Shiny Toy

I have a confession.
I am not  a technology bandwagon person. In fact, sometimes I willingly watch the whole bandwagon parade from the sidelines and am happy to be a spectator.

It's not that I don't love technology and all the bells, whistles, and cool stuff that makes life easier and more efficient. I do. In fact, a large part of my teaching is in technology. I am a web/graphic designer. And when Adobe comes out with a new, faster, better way to accomplish something that took a while to master, well, that just brings me joy.

So I do like new gadgets but I don't seek out the Newest, Shiniest Toy. The breakneck speed with which these products come out is dizzying. And quite frankly, I can't keep up. Or rather, I am happily part of the crowd that can wait a little while until the dust clears and I am ready to embrace The New Thing.

I know what you are saying…and I know I will LOVE The New Shiny Toy. I know I will. Just sometimes, I need to get to it when I am ready. So when I found out that I was going to get one of the Farmingdale ipads. I was happy. I was. So much so, that I picked it up on Thursday and it is still sitting on my dining room table. It's not that I don't want to play, it's just that I have a lot to do. Annual Report, grading, setting up and prepping for my A session online course and a client website that I promised would be complete by the weekend.  I realize that I am fully versed and completely comfortable in the apple/mac environment being a graphic/web designer since 1995 and teaching these processes and systems since 2001. But the actual idea of having to figure out another device, process, set up, and operating system was just…intimidating? No, Just another chore…and so…there it sits on my dining room table. Mocking me.