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Hello FSU and welcome to my blog!

My name is Liliana and I am entering into my third year as an undergraduate student at Florida State. Despite entering into college in the fall of 2016, the academic choices I have made mean that I won't be graduating until spring of 2022, which honestly doesn't even sound like a real year to me... On the other hand, I'll be armed with three degrees before I enter the real world: BS in political science, BA in social sciences education, and an MA in social sciences education as well. So at least spending six years in Tallahassee will be worth it!

Prior to EME 2040, the majority of my experience with technology in a school setting comes from high school classes, namely a media studies course, a photography course, and a series of journalism classes. In the media studies course, the goal was to create different types of visual and audio media (such as a commercial, a music video, and a short film) which of course means most of the work in the course involved using movie-editing software (well, okay, iMovie). The photography course involved, obviously, a lot of work with Adobe PhotoShop and similar photo-editing software. As for journalism, I was lucky enough to be on the staff of my yearbook and actually was editor-in-chief my senior year, so I got to do a lot of hands-on work with editing and publishing software. Since coming to FSU most of my schoolwork has not allowed me much space in terms of exploring new technologies because the most I really do is write lots of papers -- so I've gotten fairly proficient in that respect, I suppose.

I hope to learn new and efficient ways of using and implementing technology into a classroom because I do one day want to become a teacher. I believe knowledge and familiarity with technology is critical to the success of future and current students considering the rapidly advancing world we live in, so I want to do my part in helping educate the next generation as best as I can. I wouldn't consider myself very proficient with Microsoft Office programs, having been raised on Macs, so I am also looking forward to being able to familiarize myself with the programs. Overall, I want to be able to use the skills I (hopefully) learn here to help myself become the best educator I can be.