Intro to Irene Hamilton

Hello all! My name is Irene Hamilton. I go to Spotswood High School. Spotswood is about a 45 minute drive from gov school, which I use to catch up on my sleep. Every time. If I made a list of my favorite activites, sleeping would be number one. Along with reading, eating, acting and dancing that is. My extracurricular commitments include one act in the fall, musical in the spring, and acappella and dance all year round. As far as technology is concerned, I am currently trying to teach myself how to use my new laptop. Trying to buy a laptop these days is quite an ordeal, let me assure you. Ever heard of Windows 8? Its awful. I feel like one of my parents, thats how technologically inept it makes me. Computers now look like phones, and phones might as well be computers. I thought I was at least slightly technongically savvy, but sadly I am not. I would like to learn how to use features like SkyDrive and other confusing but supposedly "very nice" features of Windows 8. I would just like to be on top of all the new and changing technology.

Introduction to Emma Lineberry

Well hello all,
My name is Emma Lineberry. I attend Central High School which is about a 20 minute bus ride away from Gov. School. I run cross country, play tennis, and dance in Harrisonburg. I enjoy movies, except horrors, because I find no joy in peeing my pants. I also love people and hugs. Hugs always make me better. I hope to learn to more about technology, because before my brother would fix all of the computer problems. But now he is at college and not able to fix all of my problems. I am using technology as a general term, because I couldn't set up this blog account by myself through all of the steps and emails. I am very technologically impared. But this blog will help me stay informed and updated with class. Plus it now appears very user friendly!

Introduction

Hello! My name is Bethany Neri, and I attend Central High School (Shenandoah County). I am a very active person and am always busy! I am a part of numerous clubs at Central and the cross-country, swimming, and track teams. I also love to go hiking, watch movies, and eat salsa (or anything spicy!). This year I am excited to learn about using all kinds of technology, especially making high-tech spreadsheets and movie presentations. I would definitely consider myself to be technologically challenged; therefore, I feel like I will learn and improve my skills a lot here at Governor's School. 

I am excited to use this blog to stay informed and connected as well as share ideas!

Hiya!  I'm Maria Leckey and I go to Turner Ashby High School.  I'm into acting/theatre and movies and music and SCI-FI (The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars, everything).  As far as technology goes, I'm struggling just coping with the Gov School calculator, let alone the world of Google and the inter-web.  I'd really like to get more adept with spread sheets so I don't spend half an hour trying to figure out how to get a column/row to perform the same function simultaneously, which I find cool, exciting and time-saving, except for when you're spending time trying to figure it out.  Ain't nobody got time for that.
I'm psyched for this blog--it's a really neat and effective way to share your ideas outside of class.
Bye!
Maria Leckey

Introductory Post

Hola mis amigos. Mi nombre es Juan. Soy alto y atletico. Jugo al golf todos los dias y soy un estudiante excelente.... y soy muy comico... That is about as much Spanish as I can come up with at such a late hour. This is Jonathan Koontz if you are still wondering. I go to Stonewall Jackson. I am a member of our golf team and a Spanish scholar. This year, I would like to explore the evolution of technology and how it can manage to double in speed every 18 months, becoming outdated and incompatible in such a short stretch of time. However, as Grace said, fixing printers could be a useful skill as well.

Thank you for your time and have a wondrous evening.

Jonathan Koontz

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Hello!
My name is Kylie Britt, and I attend Turner Ashby High School. My interests are all over the place, and I always am committed to something- some sport, team, practice, organization, job- anything, I'm just always busy.
This year, I'm looking forward to getting more familiar with all of the Google programs. I didn't really use my Gmail for anything before Governor's School, and just trying to use Google Drive for our lab report proved a difficult task. Thank goodness I figured out how to write a blog post. Google is a great organization that I would like to know more about and be comfortable with using their programs. Since I only recently became aware of something called Google Fiber, so I am including a link for everyone to look at and become envious of the people in Austin, Kansas City, and Provo: https://fiber.google.com/about/
I can't wait to experience learning through different and new technology this year.

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Hi! My name is Grace Monger, and I attend East Rockingham High School. As for what you should know about me, I like to play music and sports; but most of all I love to work on my farm. In have no earthly idea what kinds of technology I want to learn this year.... Or even what that question is really asking. Software-wise, I would like to learn how to create better graphs with spreadsheet information. Hardware-wise, I would like to learn how to fix my home printer because it doesn't work more often than it does work! :-)
I look forward to using this blog, it seems like a good way to effectively communicate outside of class.
Grace Monger