When I look back, there were two major occurrences that influenced my life with computers. First, in the mid-80s, I was hired to work at the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), where my boss was Don Rawitsch, the inventor of the popular educational program “Oregon Trail.” I was using an Apple 2e every day, and I was surrounded by programmers using computers in education. In 1992, I was hired as Asst to the Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University. The Dean was Alvin Goldfarb, and he had hired an Associate Dean, Dave Williams, whose area was (you guessed it) using computers in the Fine Arts, and he had developed a cutting edge computers lab. Those two experiences not only gave me experience with computers, but also made me much more interested in using computers in education. Once I was hired at UNC Asheville, I became very much involved in the computer work in the Center for Teaching and Learning, and I did a lot of experimentation with computers in my classroom. It seemed natural and fun. Thank you Don, Alvin, and Dave!