Teaching this (old?) girl new tricks!

Category: my Winter thoughts | Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:51 am

Hello Stewbies! I thought I would relate my tales of mastering (sort of) the computer. Well, maybe not mastering, but I am learning how to do things that I never thought I needed to! Us older people were not raised with this computer technology, it does not come natural! I know you can take classes and all, but I don't want to! I stubbornly want to figure it out on my own! (or with a bit of help now and then, Thank you Frank and Toni!)
Anyway, I have been having fun uploading photos from my digital camera onto my garden page to share with you all. Not without a few mistakes and re-doing!! So, I hope you will take a look at my photos.
I have so many photo albums (the real tangible kind!)that are full of all my gardening efforts through the years! I wish it was possible for you to see all of those! I'm sure all of us older folks do! Anyway, my real expertise lies in working with tools such as my Felco pruners, hedgers, clippers, trowels,rakes, and well, you know... I'm a gardener!

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Jewell wrote on Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:37 am:

Gardening and photography just go hand-in-hand. I've used our cheap little old printer/scanner to tranfer some old photos to the computer. It is not really time efficient but it doesn't cost anything and it is nice seeing those old photos as screen savers, back drops and just available to easily look at.

Oh yeh, don't worry about mastering the computer...technology keeps changing so fast that has never happened for me. My tech grant I got last spring has blown me away with all that I don't know. We just got to keep on playing and having fun with it ;) just like our gardens.

Frank wrote on Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:54 am:

Computers will look daunting for anyone with little tech experience at first, but I really believe the basics are within everyone's grasp.

Sjoerd wrote on Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:15 am:

Heh heh heh...I know what you mean about "classes" and learning the computer. I find that computers are something that one can learn theirself or with one somebody teaching, sitting side by side...but courses and learning out of a book???
The 'teacher' has to be a certain sort of person--they must be patient and abstract-thinking enough to perceive when something is not getting through and try a different way to impart the info.
I taught my m-i-l how to use a compi when she was 80. Others had tried but she found them not patient enough with her.
I admired her willingness to learn and it was a constant challenge trying to think up ways to make things clear to her.
Now she happily computers-away (when she feels like it) and is very happy that she learned how to use it. Because, you see, while her mind is 100%, her body is failing and so the use of a computer opens up a world for her which means that she doesn't feel so isolated. Bless that lady.