July 14 - afternoon

[joann chen]

It usually seems like a big cloud over my head at the beginning when I try to learn a new tool in this summer tech class. Gradually it becomes clear to me and makes sense to me more when I play around. Still I wish I had accessed and played with computer or any sort of tech before. I guess I just never like tech, or maybe I have been a tech phobia one way or another and just don't think I can manage any sort of tech well. I somehow perceive that tech stuff belongs to men not to women. In my family, my mother, my sister and me never have to do anything relating to tech, because my father is the tech expert, he is excellent in all kinds of trouble-shooting. Yeah, I am proud of my father who is still active in playing with computer, skyping with us and his friends, browsing on-lines, using digital camera and downloading pictures to computer and send them out thru email and constantly update himself with all new tech development . . . And he is eighty two now. Many of the works he does with his computer are still for me to catch on. But, the world is changing. I don't seem to have many choices to stay in my comfort zone and not to get in touch with tech. I sigh. . .

[Julie]

I too am marveling at your dad. Remember that you're working hard to get out of your "comfort zone" as you have said, and "get in touch with tech". Give yourself credit for taking the time and making the effort to give part of your summer to this...

[Margaret F]

Joann,
I can relate...also, your dad sounds like a marvel, but you make me curious--was he an engineer? But mostly, I am not too comfortable, either, in this unfamiliar territory of the new programs we've been using, and yet I'm afraid of being any further behind...

I wonder what new things will have been created by September that Paul will be twittering about and we won't have tried yet...eeeek!
Margaret