Appendix:  Transcript of Tape Recordings of the Two Students

 

Student 1

 

  1. IN: What is your name?

 

  1. AD:  My name is Matthew Tuohy

 

  1. IN:  Now what are you doing?

 

  1. AD:  I am opening up Internet Explorer from the Start menu with the mouse.

 

  1. AD:  I want to check my mail.

 

  1. IN:  What website are you typing in?

 

  1. AD:  I am typing in w-w-w dot yahoo dot com into the browser.

 

  1. AD:  I am clicking the mail button.

 

  1. IN:  How did you find out about this site?

 

  1. AD:  I guess I have always known about it

 

  1. AD:  So now I am signing into my account.

 

12.  AD:   I am going to type in my ID and password.

 

13.  AD:   AnnnndÉ..I have two in my inbox.

 

14.   IN:  Anything good?

 

15.   AD:  Dan my friend from C-S-U has requested me to be his Facebook friend?

 

16.   IN:  What is Facebook?

 

17.   AD:  The Facebook  is a website you can use to keep in touch with your friends.  UmÉ.You can look at pictures and talk to people from different colleges.  And it is a huge time-waster.

 

18.   IN:  What are you entering in now?

 

19.   AD:  I am entering in my email and password onto the Facebook.

 

20.   AD:  I just confirmed Dan as my friend.

 

21.   IN:  And what will that do?

 

22.   AD: Well now I can go look at his stuff on the Facebook.

 

23.   IN:  How do you get all these people on your facebook?

 

24.   AD:  I have gone to school with all of these people at some point and they can request me as a friend.

 

25.   AD:  You pretty much put pictures of yourself and you can design a profile and write whatever you want about yourself.

 

26.   IN:  How did you hear about the Facebook?

 

27.   AD:  When I was a senior everyone talked about it and I couldnŐt wait to get one, so now I have my own profile since I am in college.

 

28.   IN:  What is the purpose of this for you?

 

29.   AD:  It helps me keep in touch with everyone and I can read up on their lives without calling them all the time, cuz IŐm in Hawaii and they are not.

 

30.   IN:  What was that noise?

 

31.   AD:  That was a weather pop-up, it beeps every now and then when the weather changes.

 

32.   IN:  Is it helpful?

 

33.   AD:  No, it just bugs me I have it on my computer too but I am too lazy to get rid of it.

 

34.   AD:  And now I am going to log out of Facebook because I have spent enough of my life on it.

 

35.   IN:  Now where are you?

 

36.   AD:  Now I am back at my email clicking on a mail from SPJ, the society of professional journalists which I am a member of here in Hawaii.

 

37.   AD:  And it is telling me we are going to have a social today.  But today is already over.

 

38.   AD:  Now I am done with my mail so now I sign out.

 

39.   AD:  I want to check my daily horoscope for tomorrow on Yahoo.

 

40.   ID:  And how exactly will you do that?

 

41.   AD:  Well I am going to click on the horoscope button on Yahoo.

 

42.   AD:  And itŐs looking pretty good, conquering that challenge showed everyone a new level to your intelligence.  We will pretend that happened.

 

43.   AD:  Now that thatŐs done I am going to get you a new desktop picture because yours is boring.

 

44.   IN:  And how will you do that?

 

45.   AD:  Just watch, I am going to find a picture on yahoo.

 

46.   IN:  Get me a picture of some mountains.

 

47.   AD:  I am typing ÔmountainsŐ into the search engine.

 

48.   AD:  Now I click ŇimagesÓ and press ŇsearchÓ

 

49.   AD:  Okay here is a nice picture of some snowy mountains.

 

50.   AD:  I am opening the picture.

 

51.   AD:  Now I right click on it and drag down to Ňset as backgroundÓ

 

52.   AD:  Now it is your new wallpaper.

 

53.   IN:  Thank you.

 

 

 

Student 2

 

  1. IN:  What is your name?

 

  1. AD:  Nick

 

  1. IN:  Explain what you are doing?

 

  1. AD: Okay, I am opening up I-tunes now so that it is accessible.

 

  1. AD: I am going to check my comics on Internet Explorer, see if they are up yet.

 

  1. IN:  And what do you mean by Ňup yetÓ?

 

  1. AD:  IŐm just going to see if they are updated yet.

 

  1. AD:  AnnndÉ they are not up yet.

 

  1. AD: Okay well, I am going to close this up and look at the news and see if there is anything interesting.

 

  1. IN: And your purpose for checking the news is?

 

  1. AD: Well just to keep up with the world and look for new technologies.

 

  1. IN: What website are you looking at now?

 

  1. AD: This is the New York Times.  ItŐs a good place to read the news of the country.

 

  1. ID:  Why this site?

 

  1. AD:  It covers more than most papers.

 

  1. IN:  Anything interesting?

 

  1. AD:  ÔThe Case of Technology Smuggling.Ő Opening up that one in a new window so I can read it while the other ones load.

 

  1. IN: WhatŐs it about?

 

  1. AD:  Well it looks like a Chinese television director and wife are indited for charges of stealing secret documents on American Navy warship technology.

 

  1. IN:  Was it hard to fine this article?

 

  1. AD:  No, I just kind of scrolled down and clicked on the headline.

 

  1. AD:  Now I am opening up favorites and scrolling down to fine where I put Anatek.

 

  1. IN:  And what is Anatek?

 

  1. AD:  UmÉ.Anatek is a lot of computer stuff, itŐs all the new news about E-3 and all sorts of production things.  They just display all their new technologies and talk about them.  It also tells you news about technology.

 

  1. IN: What are you listening to right now?

 

  1. AD:  ATB on I-tunes.

 

  1. IN:  Does that come with any computer?

 

  1. AD:  Well, itŐs free to download from Apple dot com.

 

  1. AD:  Good old I-tunes.

 

  1. IN: Now what are you looking at?

 

  1. AD:  I am checking my AIM, AOL Instant Messenger to see if I have any friends online.

 

  1. IN:  Explain more about this AIM please.

 

  1. AD:  Well AIM allows you to talk to other people who are online at the moment.

 

  1. IN:  Do you see anyone you want to talk to?

 

  1. AD:  Not really, I think I am going to play a game.

 

  1. IN:  What game is this?

 

  1. AD:  Ragnok online.

 

  1. IN:  So youŐre entering in your password?

 

  1. AD:  Ya, I am logging on to the game.

 

  1. AD:  Is this game online?

 

  1. IN:  Ya, you can play against other people who are also online.  ItŐs a massively multi-player online game. 

 

  1. IN:  How did you find out about this game?

 

  1. AD:  I found out about it a long time ago from a friend and my roommate downloaded it to my computer for me. 

 

  1. AD:  And itŐs not letting me connect actually.

 

  1. IN:  So you are trying to connect but it will not let you.

 

  1. AD:  Yes

 

  1. IN:  Why canŐt you connect?

 

  1. AD:  The server is having problems, they are getting it on a small little computer.

 

  1. AD:  So now I am going to close the music so that it can run a little faster.

 

  1. IN:  I noticed you have a lot of Anime stuff on your computer.

 

  1. AD: Ya, I am a huge fan of Anime, I watch it a lot but I donŐt know a whole lot about it.  I just enjoy it.

 

  1. AD:  So this will take a while for the game to load. 

 

 

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