Electronic Literacy

Technologies are a great support for humans; they help us making our lives easier in any term. For me the technologies are mainly useful in educational aspects. I can remember how I started in the use of these technologies, as I can say how I am using them nowadays, and how I think that they will help me in the future.

First I am going to place myself the first time I used a computer. I was 8 years old, and my mother bought me and my sister a computer, I remember that I was the only guy in my classroom who had a computer. I remember that I did not dare to turn it on if my sister was not with me, because I felt that maybe I could do something that may break down the computer, so it took me a lot of time to learn how to use it. I learned how to use “Microsoft Word” when I get in the Junior High School, because only one teacher asked us to present the homework printed.

Next point is the way I use technology nowadays. In the present I use the computer not only to do homework, I also use it to chat with friends using the “Windows Live Messenger”, to listen music while I am looking for something in the net, doing my homework or playing videogames. I think that I use the Internet and my computer more to have fun and entertainment than for educative purposes, but I think that the main importance of the internet is to make easy the way to obtain information, which helps me a lot when I have investigation homework.

Last point is about the future with technology. I see myself in the future more dependent of technology, I think that I will not be able to live in this world without a computer with internet access, I mean, if nowadays I get bored when I am without internet, what can I expect in the future when it will become more than just a way to spend time?, actually the future is on the technology. Life is 50% real life, 50% virtual life, I think that in the future it will become 20% real life, and 80% virtual life, I really hope that, at least, my life would not turn in that way.

As conclusion, I can say that technology is very helpful for me, and it is a way to get entertained and to spend time, but I can see that since I met technology, it has evolved in a very fast way, and not only that, nowadays it has become a necessity, as in the past years the necessity of humans to socialize, the technology has become that important for many people, and in the future it will become a very essential part of any human life.

First Essay

Who am I? I am a 20 years old guy I study the B.A. in English Language Teaching at the UAA. I have had a lot of experiences in my life, as for example the friends I make in my childhood, or the friends I met in my youth while I was in high school. Also, there are a lot of things I like as the music I listen to and the TV shows I saw, which have a lot of influence on my behavior.


First of all, I am going to talk about my childhood, a stage in my life where I could meet some friends at school, and out of school. I spent the early years of my childhood playing with my neighbors, we used to go to the street and play soccer for a while. It did not matter if you were a boy or a girl, you were able to play with us. After playing soccer we use to go for some drinks to the store, place where we used to talk about the things we did in school, or about cartoons, mainly about Dragon Ball Z. Suddenly, I changed my neighbors friendship for my classmates, we all did it, and we did the same things, the same games, but now with other friends

Next is my Youth. It started when I turned 13 years old, I met new friends at junior high school, but since they lived far away from my home, I went out with just one friend, we used to go to play videogames. There I met some new friends, and I started to like music, mainly the Industrial and Thrash metal. My new friends fans of videogames were kind of weird, and more even when we got into High School we used to go to some metal bands concerts, where we always got into fights because of alcohol.

The last point is about the Music and TV shows I like. I like a lot of bands of many different genres, but I love mainly Grind Metal, with bands such as, Napalm Death, C.B.T., Last Days of Humanity and Torture Killer. I like them because they are brutal music, reason why they do not share place with the mainstream bands that only make music to make money. TV shows I like are mainly cartoons. My favorite one is The Ren & Stimpy Show, that cartoon inspired me to make drawings with the same sense of humor that the show had, based in the grotesque things. Other shows that like me are: Hey Arnold!, it reminds me to my friends of childhood, Invader Zim reminds me to the friends of my Youth, and Malcolm in the Middle reminds me to some people of my family. I can say that I base my favorite things on those shows that make me remember the stages I have lived, I am a wistful person.

As conclusion, I can say that I am a normal person, with a normal Childhood, a normal Youth, and a normal life, that sometimes bases his likes as music and TV shows on what can make him remember all his life.