Although this posting (well, more like a rant) h$as nothing to do with digital photography, it does have to do with technology in general. I am currently applying to many boards in the southern Ontario region and the majority of them use www.applytoeducation.ca as their means of applying. Today I spent the entire day at my school scanning all of my documents (teaching reports, transcripts, police check, etc.) one by one, for every board. For some reason, I figured that having a brand new scanner at the school, things would go pretty quickly - but honestly, to scan one page, it took an average of about 2-3 minutes. Now when you think about it, I had about 7-10 pages to scan per board, and there are 9 boards that use applytoeducation.ca - that's a LONG time to be scanning. Once I was finally done scanning, I then had to upload said scans onto the actual website, which took another 2 minutes per page. Sometimes I get so frustrated with technology, and it really seems like a ironic paradox to me. We use technology because it is supposed to be so much quicker and reduces paper, etc., and yet it often takes a very long time to even scan and upload documents. Doesn't that defeat the purpose??
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