Thing 2

Currently, this is my first encounter with blogging. I am not an extremely avid technology guru as some persons my age. I am also not 100% confident in "playing around" with technology, due to the fact that most technology breaks when I have that mind set. Alas, here I am in technology class giving the 2.0 a fair shot.
As a high school and previous college student I was a pretty terrible writer. I have some mild learning difficulties when it comes to processing my thoughts and writing them out. I was told I struggled in spelling (but don't we all). Needless to say, my past writing and reading experiences have been less than successful. I must also say that I am an extremely slow typist so I see this class as a typing intro as well as a technology intro.
My blog name was picked solely on the fact that I would be able to remember it easily since it is my name. my blog posting name is "Wood's contemplations" because that is how I see this blog site. I see it as journal.
In creating the blog I found the processes quite easy, but I wonder how much of that was because we were being walked through the process by Ms. Richardson. If I had to do it on my own I am confident that some time this century I would have figured out how to set it up. There are several steps that have to be done to create the blog account which leads to a slight challenge when trying to attempt it on your own.
Creating the avatar was a fun and frustrating experience. When uploading it to the blog I kept putting it in the wrong gadget. Uploading it to the wrong gadget makes it load in the wrong spot on the main page. After 3 attempts I finally was able to put the avatar where it needed to be. My avatar shows me as a relax person. I chose to depict myself in a relaxed manner since that is when I'm most happy. So overall this was a fun and exciting step to further my technology education.