Dear Mom,

I am still having fun at camp, however it has proven to be a learning experience. I just had a website put up for me, and I am still trying to figure it out. Since I am new to all of this, it has proven to be a little tougher than I initially expected. This is a big difference than sitting in my room for long hours writing code.

Love,

Jasmine

Dear mom,

With everything going on last week, I forgot to write you a letter home. Camp so far has been…… a new experience. I takes a lot of involvement, if you think that you are able to sleep the day away in the sun, think again! So far I have made a youtube, twitter, flixr, and a few other accounts. These are all new to me, but I am having fun with them.

Love,

Me<3

Dear Mom,

It has been such a crazy week! I really got into the nitty gritty stuff w/ my website, got to play around a lot with wordpress, made videos, took pictures. Camp is really starting to pick up! I’m realizing though that it will be tough balancing my UMW course and this camp for the next 3 weeks, all the while still trying to work. but I WILL SURVIVE!!!

Here is a link to my website btw… http://www.mindofamasri.com. It is where I am keeping track of a lot of the stuff I’m doing in camp.

I did 3 daily creates this week! My 2 favorite were these…

- This was a picture I had to take of stone, water, and clouds… I am really amping up my phototaking abilities! haha

The second one is this…

which was a picture of the sky, for some reason I find it really asthetically pleasing to me.

On top of all these cool camp activities (check my website for more stuff!), I’ve been learning javascript and xhtml in my Web Application Development course. It is time consuming, but AWESOME stuff! Also worked a lot this week, I’ll be home for Marwa’s graduation on Friday though! I wouldn’t miss that for anything! See you in a few days.

sincerely,

mindofamasri

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