Technology and Elections

As I was reading this article on the reader Technology and 21st century elections from History Tech, it caught my eye about the difference in our today elections than the past elections. We all know standing in line waiting for our turn to vote is always boring or just wasting time. It was interesting reading how we can vote on our mobile phones, for instance the campaign tools powered by cloud computing. I tried using this on my android phone I searched in the Google search engine, and it took me to the campaign voting site. I clicked on it, looked for the button on the left side to vote. I clicked on the button and I could not upload the site because the site was blocking me. I could not use the voting tool. I asked my parents who both own a IPhone and they both could vote on their IPhone with no problems. It was a lot easier for them to vote just a click from their phone, but for me I could not use the mobile phone due to my service plan that I chose. It is interesting ready that "80 million voters in the U.S. will access political information critical to their decision making process via cloud-based news and campaign apps on smart phones. A 200% increase from the 2008  Presidential race". That is great to hear about, that our technology is doing  a great job campaigning for our elections, making it easier for us to vote. The Internet helped our Presidential campaigns both promote what they wanted by our social media apps and our Internet.

This technology tool is one of kind, it helped my parents make voting easier than waiting in a line. It took my parents less then ten minutes to vote for their candidate. Instead of waiting in line to vote, they got their voting in and continued on their daily schedule lives. I could not enjoy that experience due to my Android phone but I still made the time to go vote tonight, even though I had to wait least thirty to forty minutes, I voted for my candidate. It was great that my parents got to use the technology tool, I wish I could have but my parents were very happy with the technology tool. My dad will be looking for some more technology tools in the near future he says. I have a feeling that technology tools will keep growing more and helping our country with all the success that we need. I can not wait till the next four years to vote again hopefully with only an option with technology tool to vote for our presidential candidates in 2016.

Lincoln Movie and Floor Plans?

Over this past weekend with the Thanksgiving holiday I saw the Lincoln Movie. In the beginning it was the usual background information but it got more in depth with Lincoln life story. How he wanted to become the President of United States, how he wanted to make changes within the Civil War. While looking for something to blog about, I found this website called the Lincoln Movie and White House which is pretty cool to see the actual floor plans of the White House when Abraham Lincoln was the President. While looking through this you can actually go to the White House Museum Floor Plan clicking on different rooms on the website. You actually see real images of what the that particular room looks like. There is a summary of the specific room about the history of the room, which is great to know about. I showed this website to my little cousins who are in the second grade, seventh grade and fifth grader, they all liked the website. The reason why they were excited clicking on different rooms, even though the second grader could not read fully all the words. There were pictures showing her what is in the rooms. She would ask different questions, for example, what is that there, who is that in the chair? Questions about the picture, but the second grader was learning more about the rooms in the White House because she was asking questions. Even though she has not learned anything in the government subject yet, but she was learning by the pictures. Clicking on the different rooms were helping her read and pronounce the different rooms. This is a great site to actually know what is the White House, knowing a little more history about the White House is a great! If students saw this in class they would probably know more about the White House and wanting to learn, because it is a hands on learning. Clicking on different rooms learning about the history of it. It is great! Just watching my little cousins go on this website, I was helping them learn and understanding a little bit more about the White House because of the website I found out.
This website can help education a lot in many ways. It will help the students keep there attention span longer, actually want to learn more because you can click on different rooms. Can ask more questions because the student may not know who is the picture or what the history of that room consist of. This website can be used for government, I think it is a great technology tool for the teachers to use in a classroom. Teacher's can teach a little bit more what is in the White House, let the students focus more about what is in the White House, knowing a little more background knowledge.