Insights About Myself with this Blogging Experience

I began this blogging exercise with a great deal of apprehension. When I initially looked at some of the blogs that were provided as examples, I was quite intimidated and feared it would be a difficult process to create one from scratch and give it a professional character. However, I was pleasantly surprised and pleased to find that after only a couple of sittings with the Google Blogger tool my anxiety decreased substantially, and I developed a certain confidence that I could work with it quite successfully.

Along the way, I did have a scary experience when, in an effort to get creative and go a bit beyond the standards, I modified the html in hopes of changing how the posts displayed on the screen. I thought it would be neat to have only a few lines of each post show up with a button to click to see the remainder. I read through on-line blogger help and was directed to third-party source material to accomplish the task. However, it wasn't as straightforward as what I had hoped, and in putting different code into the html, I caused the entire blog to be inaccessible for a period of time. Thankfully, it was not a fatal error, and the blog was recovered within an hour thanks to some quick help from Dr. B and associates. The panic I felt knowing I could have potentially lost the blog for my team members was enough to discourage me from trying anything similar after that. However, when preparing my own personal blog to demonstrate to others down the road, I hope to learn some of the more custom features.

All in all, I feel very positive about this blogging experience. I see incredible potential for using it in the media center and sharing it's worth with teachers so they can reap the rewards of such a useful technology tool.