Webinar Presentation

So tonight was our presentation in a webinar. I think it was very helpful and we finally figured out the organization of our presenation. Unfortunately a lot of my material is going to be different in our actual presentation since we changed around the organization of our outline. But, I will be fixing this all tomorrow morning before class.

This is the outline of my presentation. It is not very concise, but I need to work on releasing early and releasing more often...so here is more of my brainstorming. My slides in the presentation hopefully made this information more clear, but still I needed to cut out a lot.

Change:

-Nothing is as constant as change.

-In this class we began to discuss how change is inevitable in the digital age that we live in.

-Especially now in our fast paced digital age, change comes so quickly. New trends, inventions, businesses, digital tools come and go faster than ever before. It is hard to get used to these changes as they come more quickly each year.

Day by day, minute by minute, second by second we went from where we were to where we are now. The lives of all of us, of course, go through similar alterations and changes. The difference between the changes in my life and the changes in yours is only in the details. Time never stands still; it must steadily march on, and with the marching come the changes.
This is our one and only chance at mortal life—here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now. 

I began getting interested in this idea of change and opportunity when I came across this quote in a book I was reading for another class:

As David Eggers says we

have an opportunity to do everything better —to carry on those traditions that made sense and to jettison those that didn't —which is something every parent has the chance to do, of course, to show up one's own parents, do everything better, to upwardly evolve from them...

This got me thinking about the digital culture and how digital media has changed our culture drastically from the generations before us. The way we parent now is drastically different than the way they parented only ten to twenty years ago. Concerns about the digital age and the rapidity of digital culture are scary, new, and provide unlimited opportunity. Some rules from before still apply, and should be applied, while new rules and new opportunities should also be integrated.

Now it may seem crazy to have a bunch of college kids come and talk to you about the greatness of using digital media to help with family connectivity and parenting. But we are trying to bridge the gap in generations and teach how to use digital media to help families.

With Web 2.0 the internet is an interactive space. A place of opportunity. We want you to realize that there is more to digital media than just the negative act of consumption. In our class this semester we have discussed the c’s of digital culture.

They are:

To Create
To Consume
And To Connect

This is a summary of a lot of my past blog posts. I now will incorporate this text (while making it more concise) into a presentation of how different families deal with change. Each family is different and I will share more personal anecdotes about a variety of different families and how they use digital media to connect.