DigITal diaries
Posted May 22, 2007 
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Please give your age and describe the ways in which you used digital technology during one week.
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Age: 18
Here is how I used technology last week:
Downloaded Skype, so I can telephone from my PC to anywhere in the world for FREE!
Used my mobile to buy Orange cinema tickets
Used PowerPoint and Word
Used the music programs Sibelius and Logic
Used Creative Recorder to record music from Sibelius to a CD
Downloaded and copied music using iTunes – and also copied music to a memory chip for the car radio
MSN messenger – hotmailing and emailing
Topped up mobile from cash machine
Used Movie Maker to create movie with sound and subtitles
Used Internet for research
Age: 11
Played games using: PS2, PSP, Nintendo, Gameboy, the Internet and PC
Listened to music with: an mp3 player, an iPod
Used mobile to send texts and speak to friends
Used MSN Messenger
Used the Internet in school for research on the Victorians
Used an interactive whiteboard
Used a digital movie camera to make an animation
Age 16
Week 1
Mon: Microsoft Publisher – food tech coursework
Scanner – scan pictures for my food coursework
Sibelius – music coursework
Britannica – research for music and food tech
MSN Messenger and MSN Hotmail – chat and contact
MSN Hotmail – contact Martin Narey (my Schools Question Time panellist)
Tues: Microsoft Publisher – food tech coursework
MSN Messenger and MSN Hotmail for chat and personal emails
Logic Pro – record our School Choir onto CD
Online Bible – RS revision
Weds: MSN Messenger
theaward.org – the Duke of Edinburgh Award website to find details for my Gold Award starting in September
Microsoft Word – Reprint of my last History coursework
Thurs: MSN Messenger
Microsoft Publisher – food tech coursework
Use of BBC Bitesize for some early revision!!
Fri: Nothing!!!!
Sat: MSN Messenger and MSN Hotmail
Microsoft Excel – to create a basis for Junior Comps at the Golf Club
Played games at fetchfido.co.uk and bubblebox.com
Sun: MSN Messenger
Used mymaths.co.uk for some maths revision
Used BBC Bitesize to revise for maths and geography (small mocks the next day)
As it can be seen MSN Messenger and MSN Hotmail appear all the time. This is because whenever I go on the internet I always have MSN messenger on as a running programme so I can chat to my friends whilst doing my work or play on the net. This week was busy as it was a c/w finish week and revision was just beginning.
Week 2
This week was closer to the exams so there were only really three things I used the computer for: MSN Messenger, MSN Hotmail and BBC Bitesize. This was a more boring week but you did want an accurate analysis of my computer use!!!
During the time of this analysis I had an older Windows ME computer with very little RAM and ROM, only 17GB, so things like music, pictures and films overloaded my computer so I never used them. Now I have got a new PC, Windows Vista with 250GB, so now I’m doing a lot more with pictures and music as I have the memory to cope with them. This means that now, especially as my exams have now finished, the week would be more revolved around the leisure use of a PC like gaming, music and watching films. I have now also got broadband whereas before I only had dial up which made the use of the internet slow and difficult.
Age 8 (when the diary was written, but age 9 now)
Used websites like cbbc, miniclip, crazy monkeys and Disney channel to play games
Used BBC schools Games Machine Geography and French to find out about things I am interested in
Used Ocean Odyssey interactiave science and engineering site for children to help me with things I’m learning about at school
Sent emails to my friends
Used Google to find out about Leonardo da Vinci for Heroes Day at school
Went on ebay to find a pair of heelies
Played games on my dad’s phone and recorded things on it
At school used Smart learning software for simulations