I am hoping to become familiar enough with technology to use what it offers with ease.
The first step in this course – use of a digital camera, downloading and editing a photo, uploading the photo to a profile – has been intensive. I am not saying it was difficult just full of minute decisions and chances that prove to be wearing.
And now I am even questioning the language I use as I write.
Everything I do in this course will either be observed by others or graded by a teacher. That thought alone produces anxiety. But that is what this course is about – moving beyond the beginning stages of something new where negativity reigns until the content and form becomes so well know it becomes ordinary.
This is also my first class in Moodle but not my first online class.
My technology knowledge, for the most part, is self-taught. The remaining knowledge comes from librarycourses offered at the University of Vermont. In fact, a requirement of one of those library science courses was to start a blog. I have since deleted it and will say no more about it.
Yes I read blogs and find them helpful. Those helpful blogs are about education, technology, and writing. I even read EHow blogs and find the concise directions those bloggers give most useful.
Time to move onto another assignment posted in “Week One” of Multimedia Apps and Tools.
