Let the Games Begin!

For my first post on this blog, I will tell you how I normally go about finding cheese.

Step 1: Locate refrigerator in household kitchen. It is usually in a corner. Not always.
Step 2: Open refrigerator door and search shelves for package labeled cheese.
Step 3: Locate the cheese and enjoy.

Simple enough. It's not the most exciting process, and most people would probably be able to condense it into just the third step (no offense to those who need the other two steps), but the process of finding the other cheese of which I speak--the proverbial cheese of incorporating technology in teaching--is much more complex and exciting. More exciting for me because, well, I'm just not good with technology.

Sure, I text and email and can navigate through word processors and the like, but . . . blogging? What does it mean to follow someone? Isn't that a little creepy? What's all this stuff on Google? I thought it was just a search engine. To further illustrate my ignorance, a friend of mine once told me she had just tweeted and I said, "How embarrassing!" It was a joke, but it still mirrored how I felt about all this social networking business. Ignorant. In fact, there's a video about the first tech support in history that makes me feel a little better and a little worse all at the same time about my technology predicament.

But thank goodness for this class! I hope to be able to learn about all of the things mentioned above as well as other things I didn't even know existed. I would list them, but . . . I don't know what even exists. It's not the most ambitious list, but hey, you have to start somewhere. Most importantly though, I want to be able to learn how to find new technologies on my own so that after I graduate, I'll still be able to search out my own cheese without referring to my previous list and coming up pretty short. 

On my blog, I added a few widgets. These widgets include a search bar and a Twitter link. I think the search bar is useful because if I (or anyone who happens to stumble on my page) want to find a piece of technology I wrote about quickly--bam! It's possible. Also, once I start going on Twitter, the posts that will be posted on my blog page as well can be a fun way to flesh out the blog and connect more fully to my personal learning environment.