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This assignment has been quite a trying one for me due to the fact that I am a digital immigrant. For those of you who are not familiar "Digital Immigrants, Digital Natives," Marc Prensky (2001) employs an analogy of native speakers and immigrants to describe the generation gap separating today's students (the "Digital Natives") from their teachers (the "Digital Immigrants").
For me to set down and simple post a comment in my blog it takes me about 15 minutes to figure out why I can't log into my blog without it coming up in Japanese ever time, due to the fact that I live in Japan. Because I can't remember what I did the time before to correct this I have to go through the pain staking steps of trouble shooting the site. I have now figured out that if I log in through google.com in English that I do not have to go through the rest of my prior hassles.
I then can not remember where I go to start a new posting and click every possible link until it brings me to the home page that I need to be at. This could be corrected by simpling logging in through the blogger site but I always go back to my save URL in the conference section of the OMDE classroom.
All the while I am thinking about what a luxury it must be to be a digital native and not have to go through this every time you log into a new world online! I am glad that I have had to go through all of these growing pains so to speak because it is a wonderful new world online that I have yet to enjoy because of my fear of navigation!

Prensky, Marc (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon. Vol 9(5). www.marcprensky.com/writing/