I believe that my first experience with computers has been at home where my father bought an Amiga 500.  It had about 16 or 32 Mb of memory I think.  I used to play games with my brother like Lemmings, Lotus turbo Challenge, Superfrog, Battle Squadron, and my favorite Bubble Bobble.  After that,  I did some programming in my grade 9-10 courses.  I loved playing with computers and try to understand how they were working.  How can a small list of commands can make the machine do what it was doing.  Following these experiences, I connected to the internet through the university computer labs and that was quite a journey, an opening to the world.  I loved it.

I think that one of my first experience teaching with technology has been in a lab with 30 PC computers.  I was teaching Communication Technology.  It was an optional course, but students loved it because they had the chance to play with computers.  I remember I was showing them to how to use Windows Movie Maker.  They were recording some images on a digital camera and brought everything together in Movie Maker to create a small movie.  That was a big step for these kids at the time.  They were in grade 8 and 9.  It was funny because as soon as I was facing the other way, they started playing online games like “Club Penguin” and others.  All the screens were facing in the same direction and were fixed.