Teaching the Tech.

 I chose to share the technology videos with:
My Mother, (a preschool teacher for 25+ years)
My Boyfriend, Jasen ( Always figures out problems with technology)
and My Neighbor, (Needed to know how to resize her pictures)


I sent my mom that "Care Package" full of videos, and she called me and said, "Bri, I got this e-mail from you with some videos, but I don't know how to make them play."  All I could do was laugh... of course she didn't know how to make them play!  It's one simple button, the one that means "PLAY" on almost everything.  We laughed on the phone while I explained to her how to make her technology helping videos begin to play.  We just got new smart phones, so I sent her a video about how to send picture messages. I have been trying to get her to send me pictures, but she just doesn't understand how.  Now that she watched the video, she sends me about 3 pictures a day, which is pretty nice!  She said she is gonna learn the "edit copy, edit paste" tricks maybe next week!  :)  Ohhhh, I love my mom.

I tried to make Jasen watch some of the videos with me, and he said that he already knew how to do all of these things, and that he didn't want to watch them.  I looked through a bunch of them and when I saw the one about podcasting I knew it was perfect.  Last semester I had to listen to PODcasts all the time, and he didn't understand why I listened to them, or really what they were.  After watching the Podcasting in Plain English he seemed a little bit excited. I thought it was because he had learned something, instead he said, "See I knew about that too, that's why it was Jasen who knew all about it," Because the character in the videos name was Jasen... so, this was not such a successful time of sharing videos, but funny nonetheless. 

It was so random, yesterday, I was sitting outside in the back of my car reading a book, and soaking up some sun, when my neighbor decided that she wanted to meet me.  We got to talking for a little bit, and just talking about education, children, and the weather.  She then invited me into her house to show me her new throw carpet, and also show be the waisted space above the stairs that could be a storage room.  (LOL)  then she showed me a couple pictures and I told her that I love photography, and I have a pretty new big camera.  Right away she turned around and said, do you know how to re-size some pictures?  So I showed her the website picnik that we used in class, and walked her through the steps of how to resize her images.  She was really grateful, and I was excited that I got to share one of my new resources with her!