Mas' E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog » Hand http://digitalculture-ed.net/masnizad Part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Where do I start… http://digitalculture-ed.net/masnizad/2009/09/28/where-do-i-start/ http://digitalculture-ed.net/masnizad/2009/09/28/where-do-i-start/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:53:56 +0000 Mas http://digitalculture-ed.net/masnizad/?p=8 How has week 1 been so far?  Well… I am still adjusting myself with the new applications – WordPress Blog, my Lifestream, Tweeting, …  I thought I can get away with Tweeting, Flickr, YouTube as I just haven’t got the time.   The only reason I’m being online apart from accessing this course is to check my e-mail and Facebook as wasy for me to keep in touch with my friends and family.  As stated by Hand that the Internet has bring the world closer, I no longer have to wait 2 weeks to hear from my family, no longer have a massive phone bill as Skype gives me the cheaper option.  These are as far as me being in a digital culture as it comes naturally to me.  Even at work first thing I do is to power up my laptop and access my inbox instead of saying hello to my colleagues – bit sad, I know. 

It has been a mind blowing last week for me – learning new technologies for this course.  Not easy – keyword here is familiarisation and for this time is required which is a struggle for me at the moment.  I can’t power up my laptop without my 17 month old boy interfering – beebies, beebies (CBeebies) and pressing the keypad at the same time, his busy tiny little fingers pressing the swtich on/off button.  Is he the true digital culture?  Brings back memory on my previous course IDEL – Prensky Digital native, where being online is so natural to him.  I am not giving up…I am still learning.  Bear with me people…

I also wonder how people divide their time between being online and offline?  I have asked this to my husband tonite – his answer was – they are teenagers, 20 year old living with parents, those who works just to pay for their phone bills, games.

Adrian in front of Grandad's pc

Adrian in front of Grandad's pc

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