Week 1_ JOURNAL TECHNOLOGY CONTINGENCY PLAN
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MALE SPEAKER: If my computer were to crash,
00:10 I really don't have the best backup plan.
00:13 FEMALE SPEAKER: First, I did not have a backup plan
00:15 because I didn't really think I needed one.
00:20 FEMALE SPEAKER: No, my husband does all that stuff.
00:23 FEMALE SPEAKER: I don't really have a backup plan right now,
00:26 but I probably should get one.
00:28 MALE SPEAKER: The backup plan for when technology breaks down
00:30 is to simply cry, grab the box of Kleenex, and just cry.
00:34 Now, you always have to plan for the inevitable,
00:36 because it will happen.
00:38 DEBRA TAVARRES: I was working on a paper.
00:40 And of course, I was down to the deadline.
00:43 That really a bad thing to do.
00:44 But all of a sudden, I hit something,
00:48 and it wiped out my paper completely.
00:51 I think I almost cried.
00:52 I called my daughter, I said, how
00:54 do I get it back, how do I get it back?
00:55 She said, I'm not there, I don't know.
00:58 I said, you mean I've got to do it all over again,
01:00 She says, every 15 minutes, you should have saved it,
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Mom?
01:03 So I've learned now to save, save, save, save
01:06 and even I'll print out and save it again.
01:09 So I have it hard, I have it every
01:11 which way is imaginable so that won't happen to me again.
01:15 TEMEKA JOHNSON: One bad experience
01:17 that I have encountered during my online learning
01:21 is my computer completely crashed.
01:23 And I ultimately had to purchase a new computer.
01:26 I couldn't salvage the hard drive.
01:31 So from that alone, I learned to save my information
01:36 to a jump drive.
01:37 I now have a laptop and a desktop.
01:41 And my information is not only on the jump drive,
01:43 but it's saved to my laptop as well as my desktop.
01:46 I also have other family members who have computers,
01:50 as well, just in case my crashed.
01:52 BRYANNE DADE: I have everything on my hard drive.
01:54 And I save everything, every discussion post,
01:58 very important.
01:59 They say always to copy and paste,
02:01 so you always have your work.
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02:04 As far as having anything happen,
02:06 I've had the electricity go out in the middle of a paper.
02:09 I have my computer set to constantly saving.
02:13 ARLISSA WILLIAMS: I would tell everyone,
02:15 backup plan is very important.
02:19 For me, you have to make sure you
02:20 have another computer that's available,
02:23 that you back up your school work.
02:25 I had one incident where I had a PowerPoint presentation.
02:29 I spent hours on this thing.
02:31 It was beautiful.
02:33 My computer broke.
02:35 It was awful.
02:36 I had uploaded it, so it wasn't the final version.
02:40 But it wasn't no version at all, which made it wonderful.
02:45 So I really say, back up your system.
02:49 If your computer breaks, there's always a library.
02:52 But maybe your friend's house, or get to know your neighbor.
02:55 I have a neighbor that, I'm like, my internet is down.
02:58 Can I use yours?
02:59 And that really helps out, because in an online system,
03:02 just like you can't say, I can't turn in my homework
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03:05 because my computer crashed, you just have to make it happen.
03:08 So having a backup plan makes it a lot easier and a lot less
03:12 stressful to make it happen.
03:14 DAVID KNOX: My backup plan for disaster preparedness
03:17 is to one, back up all my class work on a flash drive.
03:22 I carry a flash drive everywhere I go.
03:24 Also, have two hard drives for backup, one,
03:28 a terabyte hard drive and a 500-megabyte hard drive.
03:31 And hard drives are so cheap these days,
03:33 you get a a terabyte for less than $100.
03:37 So there's no reason for not backing up.
03:39 MELVA STEPS: And I actually have recently had an opportunity
03:42 where a family emergency came up,
03:44 where I had to leave, where I was actually in New Orleans,
03:47 had to leave to go to Tennessee.
03:50 And if I had not had my external hard drive with me,
03:53 my work would not have gotten completed,
03:55 because my plan was to be back on that Friday
03:57 to get it done by Sunday.
03:59 But going to Tennessee, it would not
04:01 have gotten done if I didn't have that with me.
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04:03 GLENNICE BRUMFIELD: Being in the dissertation process right now,
04:06 I have learned to back up everything.
04:08 So I back up on my email, I back up on my USB drive,
04:13 I back up on my personal email, work email, everything,
04:18 anything I would suggest, because I've
04:21 heard the horror stories of people's computer crashing
04:25 and that type of thing.
04:27 Thankfully that has not happened to me.
04:29 But in the event, in this process,
04:33 you have to always have a backup plan.
04:37 If it's nothing more than a USB, I'm
04:39 definitely do that, back it up that way.
04:42 ANDREA BOWERS: I've learned through trial and error
04:44 that it's essential if you're on a PC
04:47 that you have an excellent antivirus,
04:51 anti-malware software installed on your system.
04:56 The second thing I use as far as backup
04:59 is to make sure that I email to a general account
05:04 like Google or Yahoo every major paper.
05:08 SUSANNAH W. SMITH: I think it's very important
05:10 to have disaster protectiveness, some sort of
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a backup program.
05:15 And one of the first things that I do when I get into a class
05:19 is find out all the contact information for my instructor.
05:23 That would mean the telephone, the ways that I can access
05:27 this person, as well as having phone numbers and computer
05:31 access that I can use with some other computer.