I’ve been fighting it for awhile now but I have finally been thrust into the world of technology. After the failed attempts of my friends and the encouragement of my former course leaders to bring me into the twenty first century it is the BAPP course at Middlesex that has cracked this nut!
Well, if I haven’t been in the twenty first century which one have I been in? I do have an ipod, a laptop, a dongle and even a face book account. I’m a ‘normal’ young person of today, aren’t I? On the face of it maybe but let’s go a little deeper. What if I told you that it was only late this summer that I bought an ipod and I still am unaware of what it can do, I can’t even upload songs onto it, I get my friends to do it for me, don’t think I haven’t tried though. I’ve had a face book account for a few months, but literally I could count on one hand the amount of times I’ve actually logged into my account and consequently have sent only one message and never posted on anyone’s “wall”, whatever that means, I haven’t seen even a picture of a wall whilst roaming on face book! I mean does anyone else get over whelmed with the amount of messages; friend requests and comments that you get sent! The screen to my laptop is cracked and I don’t have internet service at home because my dongle isn’t working. I tell you all this to say; for me, this is really a challenging course because its very nature is alien to me. This is why it’s taken me this long to start my blog because I was out shopping for the cheese to catch the mouse needed to operate this computer! Seriously though, I’m going to have to educate myself about what is available and even that is going to take me adapting my lifestyle. I still believe that these web technologies shouldn’t run your life and that even though they are cash free they are costly i.e. time consuming and time is life and life is short enough! I have to admit that I am somewhat of a convert because I must say that FOR NOW I do need media technologies. I can’t believe I just said that.
I end my first blog with those two things, firstly a salute to you who have been using media technologies for awhile, long before this course and have used it to enhance and inform your practice whatever that may. I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am open to all the help you can offer. Lastly, I’d like to encourage those that are still finding their feet and for now see blogging as more of a chore, with these words…soldier on slowly (maybe) but SURELY (definitely).
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