There are people who think that this is because we have something to hide, but others, like Oscar Wilde know that it's simply because that's how we present ourselves:
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
But what does all this have to do with home pages?
(0) We present ourselves differently in each different situation in which we find ourselves. Often, acquaintances from the university would be surprised to discover that we play football with abandon, and we may even hide from our football playing friends the fact that we write poetry.
(8) And each different situation merits a different home page. Just as, when behind a mask, we can allow ourselves to present ourselves in a different light, each home page that we make for ourselves can represent a different persona -- the main entrance into our character for those who know us from a particular perspective.
(-) None of these perspectives is the right one, only the one which certain people recognize as the way they know you.
(8) It's probably very infrequently that someone has personae as distinct as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but it can still happen fairly frequently that each perspective is distinct. You might want to try checking out additional irrelevant questions on the nature of home pages.
(5) My first attempt at a home page grew out of a course in the educational uses of electronic communications media. It made sense to include some personal information. And, of course, in obvious hypermedia-type logic, anyone interested in doing so can get from there to other information about me and about that course.
(7) One of the problematic aspects of studying for a masters in computers and communication in education is that it has a way of dominating your life. Even in the time you might ordinarily use simply to sit in front of the television or perhaps play Tetris, you find yourself surfing the net, wondering whether perhaps there are better ways to waste time.
(9) But not all of my time is devoted to the university. Two days of each week I can be found in a nursery/kindergarten in my kibbutz where I work as a m'tapelet, occasionally getting the opportunity to replace the gannenet when she's away for the day, at which time I get to take the kids on a tiyul and read them a story and the like.
(2) Am I really different from class to class? After all, we're not talking about distinct and separate settings, but about different classes that even take place in the same, or adjoining rooms.
(4) What do you do with your first drafts of a final project?
(5) Because I more or less identify myself as a Lamda person, readers are invited to visit my own personal mizbalah.
And if you're not in Yesha's class on communication technologies, then this next link isn't meant for you.
One of the personae that I wear is that of a tinkerer. Playing around is necessary not only for children, but for adults as well. And it's particularly necessary in order to get to know how to use a tool. After all, I think that's the way we learn, and even if we don't, it's much more fun than being serious. That being the case, if we started with Oscar Wilde, it's only fair that we conclude with him:
Jay Hurvitz: jayh@zoot.tau.ac.il Kibbutz Hatzor 60970 Israel
For more information on early childhood education on kibbutz, click away.
If you're a normal person, you probably throw them out.
The slightly less normal pile them up someplace well out of the way so that they won't be a nuisance.
Borderline normal people leave them strewn on their desk where they interfere with getting anything resembling normal work done.
And people in Lamda put them in the Mizbalah, thinking that just maybe there's someone even less normal out there who might even want to look at somebody else's junk.Life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
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