Earlier this week, I bought Mum her first digital camera. It's a Canon IXY 860. (In turn, she bought me a new digital camera. It's a Fuji F50.) So these past few days she's been pulling her fancy Canon out during meals to take snaps of food and show it off.
This morning I spent two hours teaching Mum how to copy photos from her camera to her new Toshiba notebook. She was scribbling notes like a maniac the whole time. Now she also knows how to resize the photos, save the baby versions to her desktop, and attach them to emails so she can send them to friends and my dad.
Tomorrow I'll teach her how to use the 1GB flash drive she bought months ago. She said saw her computer class teacher use it and thought, "Wow, that's amazing." So she went across the street to the computer store and bought one too. This was back when she didn't even have a computer at home to use it with, and no files of any kind to store on it. But she liked having it anyway. Funny, huh?
She's been dying for me to show her how to integrate the flash drive into her every day computer routine, which largely consists of using Skype to call her friend -- while they're also chatting on the home phone. (They call each other to say "Turn on your Skype!") She wants to put photos on the flash drive and take it around with her when she's out and about, just in case she has the need to show someone photos. And there happens to be a computer to plug the flash drive into. I told her that's probably not going to be very often, but okay...
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