Well here I am at the beginning of the second week, and this is the second social networking site that I've signed up to! So I'm progressing. So far this one seems a little easier to enrol onto and therefore follow than flickr - or am I getting more experienced?
As I write this I do wonder about the security of this site as my e mail address is at the top, although of course it may not appear on the posted blog (update - but then I looked and it did). The issue of security has been an interesting read for me in the course readings.
As another discussion starter I don't think I'm a digital immigrant or native, rather I'd like to classify myself as a digital acceptor - that is one who accepts digital 'stuff'. Does anyone have any thoughts on this??
Bye for now..................
Also managed to sign up to delicious and have started using a wiki that someone else has created. The latter does not seem so intuitive in that I'm not always sure if something is going to be saved.
3 comments:
Hi Polly
All of us on the course live in an interesting age - we've all grown up (to some extent) without IT, then it's come to us. I clearly remember when I first discovered email, then the Web, then blogs, wikis, and only in the last year, social software. So I guess I've accepted IT as it's come my way - with both enthusiam and cynicism..
I don't particularly agree with the concepts of digital natives, as digital technology is such a muilti-faceted thing.
Thanks, Jim.
Polly like Jim i don't agree with the concept of digital natives but i like your idea of a digital acceptor. I think this is a much more realistic approach to how a lot of people use IT.
Abi
Hi Polly,
Yes indeed: digital native v digital immigrant is a very dodgy metaphor. Can I be a digital bogus asylum seeker please?
I like the "acceptor" idea, or the "driving license" concept, as in the ICDL.
Cheers
Sarah
Post a Comment