Half Term Work

Create a ‘me in the online age’ project. Place your online

experience within a theoretical context.

Using images from google and/or photos from your past, create a
‘me in the online age’ presentation. This presentation should
communicate how you have interacted with the online world from as
far back as you can remember.

Your project can take one of several different forms:

- create a video, like the one that I showed in class, using

imovie or windows movie maker, with a voice-over;
- create a ‘prezi’ (www.prezi.com) that is saved as a flash file
(must register with your candi email);
- create an online timeline (there are many sites with free
downloads to help you with this) that shows your progression
through the online world;
- create a powerpoint presentation that documents your online
experience.

Your ‘me in the online age’ presentation will be presented in the

first lesson back after half term, and should be no longer than 3
minutes in duration.

Instructions:
Once you have chosen which format your presentation will take, you
need to carefully plan it. Use the questions overleaf to form the
basis of your ‘me in the online age’ presentation - use these
answers to carefully script what you want to say. You should think
about splitting your online experience into 3 sections – 0-6 years; 7-
12 years; 13-18 years.
Once you’ve written your script, you will need to source your
images. It’s useful if you annotate your script, illustrating where
your images will be inserted. Which photos will you use? Which
screen shots will you use? And how will you use Google image
search to help you?

Theorising your presentation

Once you have created your presentation, write 150-200 words on
how your online experience can be theorised, using the ideas that
we’ve encountered on the course so far:
- web 2.0 (mass collaboration; personalisation; freedom);
- wikinomics ideas (prosumer and peer-production);
- Prensky’s digital native/immigrant/dinosaur idea
- Henry Jenkins’s ideas around participatory culture

Bring this writing with you to class.

You in the online age

Read the following questions about your online experience carefully

and write down your answers:

1. How old were you when you got your first mobile phone?

2. What make/model was it?

3. What did you use it for?

4. How many times have you swapped your phone?

5. What kind of phone do you have now?

6. What do you use it for?

7. How old were you when you got your first email address?

8. Who did you email?

9. How often did you email?

10. How many email addresses have you had since then?

11. Who do you email now and how often?

12. How old were you when you first used a computer?

13. Do you have your own computer and if so where is it

kept?

14. What three sites did you use most often when you were
11, 13, 15?

15. Are there any changes – if so why do you think this has
changed?

16. How often do you go online?

17. How many online presences do you have?

18. Who are you online?

19. Are you a member of any online communities?

20. How many ‘virtual’ friends do you have? Where did you
get your first virtual friend?