Hello everyone, sorry I’m a bit late, my name is Sara Segovia. I am from northeast Mexico and now I live in Squamish British Columbia. Back in Mexico, I was an elementary school teacher, teaching grade 1 and 2 and previous to that, I was an early childhood educator.
This is my third course and I am very excited to get started with it since this course got my attention last term when working on an assignment related to digital and media literacy education. I remember that I found the UBC Wiki page of ETEC 540 that shares some really interesting information about that topic so from there I navigated through a couple of hyperlinks, then I knew that I I really wanted to get into this course. I find amazing how different text technologies had impacted in different ways how we learn, communicate and approach to certain kinds of thinking.
Therefore, I chose this image of Encarta 95 that brings me back to those days when I was a kid and got my first computer. I spent plenty of time digging into this new kind of text space full of photos, videos, maps as I had not seen them before. The interactive properties of it and the endless link suggestions were some of the things I found very astonishing. This experience was my first interaction with a new digital writing space and makes wonder how it changed the way I approach learning and the implications of the associative linking properties that belong to this kind of writing space.
wendyl
May 23, 2018 — 12:39 pm
Hi Sara, I’m a late arrival too. Although your image hails from a decade after mine, they both represent our shift in perspective on the world and our ability to navigate within it. For each of us I think, the implications to our writing space was massive.
I look forward to working with you this term.
sara segovia rocha
May 25, 2018 — 4:40 pm
Hi Wendy,
I agree it’s amazing to think how much it changed the way we write and read. But even though I’ve been using computers since I was quite young I still consider myself a digital immigrant and sometimes I struggle when writing and reading in digital spaces. So I feel like I’m somewhere in between where I still want to use pen and paper to link ideas and write on the computer to make sure I’m writing things correctly.
I really enjoyed reading about your experience with your first computer and word processor and your perspective about how beneficial it was for you.
It was very nice to meet you, Wendy, looking forward to learning with you 🙂
ingrid lefimil
May 25, 2018 — 10:58 am
Hi Sara!
I was born in Mexico! Tampico to be exact. My mom is from the North. What a cool experience it must have been to teach in Mexico! Are you teaching in Squamish now?
That pic is awesome, it takes me back to elementary school. I remember we owned a set of encyclopedia Britannicas but then discovered a whole set of encyclopedias on a small DISK?! Wow, I remember being so amazed at how easy it was to access so much information! Also getting time in the computer lab to do research in upper elementary…those giant monitors with the tiny screen, which at that time felt like very futuristic and advanced tech!
Nice to meet you 🙂
sara segovia rocha
July 17, 2018 — 3:18 pm
Hi Ingrid!
I’m so sorry for my very late replied, I did not get to see this one until now.
It’s very nice to meet you too and know that you’re from Mexico too. For how long have you been in Canada? Where in Canada are you living now?
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to teach in Squamish, I’ll have to do a couple of years in school apart from the MET program to validate my bachelors of Education in BC, I think.
That was a great experience, quite similar to mine! I was around the same age and I remember putting aside the big printed encyclopedias for a while.
I was fully amazed by those electronic encyclopedias that I naively thought that could teach us everything we needed to know.
It was great to hear from you, looking forward to working and learning with you for the rest of the course.