Enter the Techno Geek

Google is trying to take over the world.


For those of you who are able to, go to google right now and take a look at their stuff. I mean it. Go ahead. I'll wait.













See what I mean? What are the makers of Google up to? Why in the world would you need all those applications? They have calendars, places to make and store documents, you can start your own web page even. Impressed? You should be. Scared? I sure as heck am. There's no telling what they'll come up with next.

Now I know what their real scheme is. Apparently I'm not the only one with ambitions for world domination. Google is just doing a better job at it than me. My options are as follows:

(1) Go to a different planet and start plotting from scratch.

(2) Find some way of buying all of Google's shares so that they work for me. I don't have that kind of cash, so I'll probably have to open up a lemonde stand or two.

(3) Change my name to "Bob" and wipe away all records of my true identity.

(4) Use these Google apps to further my own ambitions while I pretend to be submissive to their will and when the moment is right, take 'em out!



For those of you who are wondering, options 1-4 can be done using Google anyway.

Option 4 is the most plausible and less complicated option. I shall therefore apply the Google propaganda into my Drama class. How, you might ask? Simple . . . just use the darn thing.

Stop laughing; I actually have a point here. What amazes me is that as you start to use the applications one realizes how your day to day activities can be served or even enhanced by Google's services. As a teacher, handouts are my primary weapon of choice. I figure the more papers you hand to a student the more likely they'll get a papercut (that'll learn 'em). Google has this app called Google.docs (by the way, their applications will begin to sand like Batman's toys: Batarang, Batmobile, Bat-Shark-Repellent-Spray and no I'm not making that last one up). Basically anywhere I go where there's an internet connection I can work on my paper handout missiles for my targets, I mean students.

We teachers (and teachers-to-be) must use all of the tools available to us if we are to use all of the teaching methods available to us. Quick example is one Mr. Duey, a Math Teacher/Rapper (no, that ain't no typo) who posted a music video teaching some basics about fractions. 50 years ago no one would've ever thought to do something like this. That's mainly because there was no such thing as rap or the internet yet (waahh-haaa-haa--I kill myself sometimes). A teacher who can appeal to multiple senses and interests to students will always have a huge impact in the learning process. Which reminds me; I now have to wrap up this post in order to finish my Polka video about the Watergate scandal for my Music/History class.