Monday March 28th – Today was my second day working with the residents at Kensington Gardens. I had an appointment that was booked the day before for today at 1 o'clock. I showed up about ten minutes early to sign in and make sure that the resident was still able to meet with me. As soon as I walked towards the computer lab I noticed that the resident I was meeting with was both ready and eager to begin working with me. Much like my previous meeting this resident surprised me with her knowledge of computers as well. She explained to me that she has been using computers since they became available, but due to an accident approximately five years ago she became disconnected from computers and the internet. We talked for a bit about her accident and we also talked about how much computers and the internet had changed since she stopped using them. However, she was very excited to catch up and we began to work. What she wanted to do was set up a Flick R account as well as her own Blog. We spent the hour together setting up her first account, she had a great deal of questions and all of them were quite relevant to the topic. Her biggest concern was about security, she wanted to know who would be able to access her flickr and her Blog, and if she could stop anyone from accessing private information. Her questions caught me off guard a fair bit, because she was quite knowledgable about internet security. She even began to tell me about how when wireless networking first began they were often unencrypted and she knew of people that would travel around and find unsecured networks and use them, and sometimes collect private information from them. Once again, this residents knowledge and skill set impressed me, and it made me re-think the views that I had towards the elderly and technology.
Total time spent” 1 hour, 20 minutes
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