<p><strong>Intro:</strong> Most of us grow into our computer knowledge gradually, starting because of an innate curiosity, figuring things out through trial and error, desiring to accomplish certain tasks, or just possessing a genetic predisposition to geekiness.&nbsp; But what would it be like as a <em>non</em>-geek to come from a non-technical background and be thrown into &ldquo;the deep end of the pool,&rdquo; challenging yourself to learn as much as you could from scratch, and to learn it all as quickly as you could?&nbsp; In Curbuntu&rsquo;s first interview with &ldquo;Baylee Juran,&rdquo; a career public-school teacher (and self-described technological &ldquo;dinosaur&rdquo;), Baylee shares what motivated her to lay aside a comfortable, if frustrating, teaching paradigm in the hope of evolving into a 21st-Century instructor.&nbsp; (Note: No cockatiels were harmed in the recording of this interview.)</p>
<p><strong>Links:</strong> Books and websites mentioned&mdash;</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Make-Money-Teaching-Online-Credibility/dp/0470100877" target="_blank"><em>Making Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary</em></a> by Danielle Babb and Jim Mirabella</li>
<li>Where Baylee&rsquo;s &ldquo;second life&rdquo; started: <a href="https://secondlife.com" target="_blank">SecondLife</a></li>
<li>Baylee&rsquo;s website: <a href="https://www.teacupcoffeehouse.com" target="_blank">TeaCupCoffeeHouse.com</a></li>
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<p><strong>Technical notes:</strong> For those of you interested in contributing first-time episodes to HPR, this interview was recorded in <a href="https://ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu</a> 10.04.1 over Skype using <a href="https://atdot.ch/scr/download/" target="_blank">Skype Call Recorder</a> for Linux.&nbsp; (The version for &ldquo;Ubuntu / Kubuntu 8/9, i386&ldquo; seems to work fine, even on the 64-bit, 10.04 version of the operating system.)&nbsp; Post-processing (e.g., editing, adding musical HPR intro &amp; outro, normalization, exporting to MP3, etc.) was done with <a href="https://audacity.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">Audacity</a> 1.3.12-beta.&nbsp; Audacity-generated MP3 meta-tags were verified with <a href="https://easytag.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">EasyTAG</a> 1.2.6.</p>