Most of the time I consider myself as being something in between a Digital Immigrant and a Digital Native. I started using computers during my last year in upper secondary school so I must have been somewhere between 18 and 19 years old. I remember that we started with programming in Pascal and I managed to put my computer in an eternal loop and the teacher had to switch off the power on the main switch ;) We then moved on to Word but didn't learn that much. A few years later the course had changed substantially and I studied at the adult education and learnt a lot. I also learnt how to create websites which I enjoy doing and have so far created 6-7 different websites.
Today I use my computer every day, at work and at home and I would find it hard living without it and doing my job without it. I teach two courses at distance and I use a Learning Management System for all my courses and my students submit their assignments by email and I correct them using TrackChanges and return them by email. I save their assignments on the server and very rarely print them out.
In my sparetime I use Facebook, I blog and I run a discussion forum for some friends whom I've met through the Internet. So I do know quite a bit about using computers.
But there are a couple of situations where I truly feel like an immigrant. Firstly, when I use the DVD-player in my computer together with the projector and the programme or the computer start acting up and the whole class is sitting there watching. Then I do feel a bit incompetent and embarrased ;) However, I'm not afraid of asking my students for help,though, quite often they don't actually have any suggestions. But I learn from every situation when a problem occurs.
Secondly, I feel a bit incompetent when it comes to playing games on the computer since I don't really do this because I don't feel I have the time and I'm not interested. I've been trying to explore the virtual world Second Life but I have trouble even moving my avatar ;)
So far this course has in my opinion been really interesting and I have learnt a lot and I'm really glad that I decided to take this course and I'm lookig forward to the rest of the term next year a lot.
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