This week my computer began to have problems. Over the course of a few days the entire thing crashed and I was convinced I had lost everything. This includes years of pictures, documents and memories which cannot be replaced. After having one of my friends, who is great with computer, look at it, he was able to recover the documents. Going through this has caused me to be more precautious of backing up all my important information in a second way. This has also taught me a lesson which I hope to pass on to my students. This lesson is that we cannot become too reliant on computer, letting them doing everything for us, and forget that they are just that, a computer. Sometimes we put a lot of trust in them without thinking. I hope that this experience I had will impact my students to teach them computer usage and management.
I've been there. Now, I periodically back up my information to an external hard drive and burn everything to DVDs every three to four months. I always tell my students to have a backup to the backup. :)
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