For our assignment, we were supposed to introduce three people to the commoncraft videos. For the first person, I tried my son. I showed him the video about Twitter, because he is always asking me about it. He seemed to think the video itself was entertaining. But when I asked him if he wanted to start a Twitter account, he looked at me and said "No. I just wanted to know how it works," and promptly left the room.
The next person to show a video to was my mom. As the least computer literate person in my family, she regards the computer as some magical box. I sat her down, and asked her if any video interested her at all. She decided on the video about BitTorrent, since my brother is always downloading music for her using BitTorrent. She watched it, and I wasn't sure she was getting it. But after the video was done, she asked to watch another one. So I set her up with the list, and she spent the next hour watching videos. While I am pretty sure she still can't DO any of it, at least she understands the idea behind most of hat she watched.
The last one happened by accident. When my mom started watching videos, she called my dad in, and he started watching it. Of course, being my dad, he insisted he already knew all of this, but found the animations to be quirky and worthy of his time. Personally, I think he was learning a couple things, but he'll never admit it. Overall, my experience with Commoncraft videos has been positive. Everyone in my family learned something, even if they didn't mean to.
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