I’ve started reading articles on the available Web 2.0 technologies and boy was I in the dark! I must admit that I occasionally ‘employ’ the services of my teenager whenever there is anything challenging for me where technology is involved. I also confess that the touch screen phone which almost everyone has these days, had me bewildered- I absolutely did not know how to access the keypad to dial when a friend recently loaned me her phone. Such is the extent of my dilemma.
I store many assignments with the usual word file, send to my flash-drive and voila! –retrieve the file to continue working whenever I’m ready. Countless times I’ve forgotten the said flash-drive and was forced to suspend working on documents. That was when I was not yet enlightened. Nevertheless, I am VERY pleased to learn about easier ways to store and retrieve information and files on the web- I had twice previously been a victim of lost and damaged files a mere day before the assignment submission date. (Has anyone else experienced this?)Hooray for Web 2.0 and delicious.com- it’s all at the fingertips on the remotest of computers. Computing in the clouds!
The key- I realise daily as with anything new- is practice, practice, practice! Simply creating this blogspot and customising the page was a joy. I imagine that at the end of the module I’d be well equipped to manoeuvre obstacles on my computer and on the net. Further, it may take some convincing but maybe I’d be able to access the 30 odd computers in the (closed) lab at my school and have the students (and teachers) collaborate as well as create a community- providing they’re not obsolete!
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