Dear Mom,

Good morning! at least it is over here at Camp Magic MacGuffin

This first week has been so interesting, I really ventured into new territory and began to grasp the purpose and philosophy behind camp. I created accounts with SoundCloud, YouTube, Flickr, and many other sites. Other than twitter and YouTube I was completely unfamiliar with the rest, so I really got to explore them. It is so interesting the amount of tools and social networks online that serve different purposes!

Watching the video with Dr. Michael Wesch really opened up my eyes to a lot of things, and a new way of approaching not only the general issue of lack of passion between education and students. But my own personal case with my schooling. It really made me think about how I was really forming an identity online, hence I decided to ‘brand’ myself. Everything from my twitter account, email, website… everything is now “mindofamasri”! I think it is so cool actually haha. I can tell this camp will be a creative challenge and am really excited for it. Being in this camp as well as taking my Web Application Development course is really giving me a holistic perspective of things. In my class I’m learning the behind-the-scenes aspects of a website – scripting languages, database tools. And at Camp I’m developing the creative sense of web development, I’m glad that I am doing both at once. Hopefully by the end of the summer I’ll be an expert at both to some degree.

Okay well, I’ll write you again soon!

Sincerely,

mindofamasri