This week, instead of focusing on the skills needed for school, I decided to encourage Regina to use some Web 2.0 technologies. I thought that if I could get her to use the computer for fun, she might take to the academic/business uses more easily.
She’s been using e-mail in her classes, so I thought I’d try something else. Since we can’t get to MySpace or Facebook from school computers, I couldn’t use those as examples either. So, we tried Flickr. Regina enjoyed looking at other people’s photos. When I asked her if she’d like to create an account so she could post her own photos, she replied that she wouldn’t ever use it because she doesn’t own a camera and won’t take pictures.
Ok. Next idea.
How about YouTube? We watched several videos. She even helped come up with keywords to search. We looked at “funny” videos. And “music” videos. She thought that was neat, but liked television better.
I got the impression she wasn’t really enjoying my examples of fun things to do online. So I asked her what she liked to do. “Watch TV.” Ok, I can work with that. We looked at the websites for the local networks. I showed her how she can watch different shows online. I showed her different fan sites. She finally seemed interested!
