Blog 4

The title of my article was The Leadership Motivation Assessment.  The article actually contained a short test to see how your leadership skills rate.  The key point this article hits on is wither you actually have the motivation to lead people.  The test included fourteen questions such as, if you get energized when someone counts on you for ideas, or if you find pleasure in being a convincing person.  At the end it assesses your score through points, 14-27 = low motivation to lead, 28-55 = uncertainty over your motivation to lead, and finally 56-70 = implies strong motivation to lead.  In my workplace leadership is very key to being an effective teacher.  So have the motivation to lead will help us be leaders to the students each and every day.

Blog 3

After reading the first page I was able to narrow my archetype down to 2 different ones.  Either the business traveler or the home user would best fit my needs.  First off I guess it be best to say exactly what my dream job would be.  I’m going to school to be a history teacher/ football coach, so I will need a laptop that can play videos, have a lot of storage space, and one very easy to move around.  On the second page I narrowed the categories down to two, either the thin-and-light or the midsize.  The thin-and light is ideal for moving from place to place, but the midsize has internal DVD burning capabilities which will allow students to make videos and then make copies for keep sake.  I feel like after reading page three that a Core 2 Quad best fits my need, because it is ideal for running multiple apps so I can have different sites on a certain subject pulled up and can switch back and forth from them.  Pages four through six just mentioned the different extras that the laptop could come with.  I personally would like an optical drive, mouse, and an external hardrive.  Looking on eBay I found a midsize HP laptop for only 349.99.  I chose an HP because the laptop I have right now is an HP and it has served me very well through my college experience, and I’ve always went by the saying “if it aint broke don’t fix it.”  I also would purchase an external hardrive from Seagate, which usually runs anywhere between 50- 200 dollars.

Blog 2

The article I chose to read was about Shannon Stone, who was a 39 year old firefighter.  He attended a Texas Rangers baseball game with his son.  However it did not turn out to be a fun filled day as they had hoped.  In the second inning, Josh Hamilton, one of the Rangers outfielders heard a kid yell for a ball as a souvenir.  Well in the tradition, Hamilton tossed it in the stands.  The boy’s father, Stone reached for the ball but ended up falling over the rail 20ft to the ground.  He was rushed to the hospital where they announced that he died of blunt force trauma. Both teams have made donations to the Stone family and a moment of silence was given before their game on Friday.  He was laid to rest on Monday July 11. 

The people that will find this article most useful would be baseball fans or someone interested in tragic stories. 

It’s just a sad article to read about. All he was doing was trying to catch a ball for his son.  It shows us how fragile life can be at times.  We just need to keep the Stone’s family in our prayers.