Congratulations to Christine Rumley for having our favourite layout last week – we loved how you pulled out an old photo of you and your cabbage patch doll to contrast against your current photos!
This week, we loved seeing and reading all your pages on technology. They’re all so different and yet the themes are strong and recurring ones – whether it’s phones, video games or computers - much has changed and we can have no idea how much more they’ll change in the future! What better reason though, to have some record of it right now.
Rebecca Young’s journalling reads: "You were born into a technology based world. It's all you will ever know. In our house alone we have an ipad 2, ipod, iphone 4, desktop computer, Wii console, Nintendo DSi, several digital cameras, wireless internet and two laptops which by today's standards, are ancient.
At Primary School we had one Commodore 64 desktop computer in our classroom for the whole class to use. Today, schools have computer rooms or trolleys full of laptops that can be wheeled around the school and easily connected to wireless internet. Some schools have ipads for each student. I was in high school when my family bought their first desktop computer, now it's uncommon not to own a computer!
Holidays were spent driving in the car with the windows down, amusing ourselves. Nowdays, driving holidays are helped by DVD players in our car and games on the iphone or ipad to amuse the kids while Satellite navigation units direct us which way to go. Writing letters or cards were once the norm but have now been replaced with emails, skype, video conferencing or text messages. So much has happened since I was a kid, I can't help but think what is in store for you in the future."
I could've easily written more!!
Agnus Kasprzak writes: Technology has come such a long way over the years and there was no shortage of topics this challenge could have taken me, but in the end I wanted to choose a topic that my boys would relate to and decided to do my layout about the Sony Playstation and the changes to computer gaming over the past 15 years since we began our family. I've included photos of the consoles we have had over the years and the larger photo of the controller opens up to reveal journalling where I have talked about how the games have advanced as well as listing some of the different types of games my boys liked to play.
Anthea Peterson writes: Attached is my take on this weeks challenge. The journaling speaks of when I was younger we didn't have a computer, in fact there weren't many families that did, but now there would be a computer in almost every home, sometimes more. This photo represents what we did as kids, that was to use our imagination, my son is using his imagination and playing with his computer while I was doing some study on mine.
Here's my layout for week 2 - technology. I chose to focus on the changes in video gaming systems between my generation and my children's. The Cosmo Cricket "Boyfriend" range which included retro Atari joysticks was my inspiration. Unfortunately we no longer have our old Atari so I sourced some images on the internet and compared them with the consoles and screen graphics of today's Wii systems.
My journalling reads:
"Will, you love all things electronic and video games are no exception. In 2010 you were lucky enough to get given a Wii console from Gran and Pop for Christmas. You pretty much only ever play Wii Sports or Sports Resort, but you would play all day if I let you. These days, you play with a remote that is completely wireless and motion sensitive. It is totally interactive, so you get up and physically shoot a basketball, swing a golf club or bowl a ball. You can even personalise it by creating your own Mii character.
Watching you enjoy playing video games brings back fond memories from my own childhood. In the early 1980's, before we even had a computer, my family owned an Atari 2600, an early pioneer of todays video gaming systems. It had a simple 8-bit graphic system and a memorable wood grain console that we plugged into the TV. It took chunky black game cartridges and had a solid black joystick which featured a single big orange button. My favourite games were Pac-Man, Frostbite, River Raid, Space Invaders and Asteroids, which later became the most popular Atari game of all time. My sisters and I had hours of fun playing Atari, even though it caused the occasional squabble. I once remember being so upset with my sister because she was beating me at Frostbite that I ripped the cartridge out of the console so the scores got wiped! I always recall that particular memory when I hear you and Bec arguing over the Wii. I guess some things never change!"
Heidi Barclay has done hidden journalling which reads:- Technology has certainly changed so much since I was your age, we had normal tape recorders and LP's - now you listen to music on your IPOD, or the computer, CD's, mobile phones which have computers and camera's on them, I had a instamatic camera with a 35mm film in it, nothing instant about that.
