Week One Reflection

There are a few things that I would like to reflect on this week. When we were asked to brainstorm ways we would use the technology such as Wiki’s, Google Docs, and Blogs as administrators someday, I enjoyed coming up with my own and reading other ideas. I actually thought of some ideas that I could use now (instead of waiting until I was an administrator.) The articles were also beneficial, but the lecture was the most beneficial to me. I really felt I got the idea from the YouTube “How To” clips. I still feel shaky with using the different pieces of technology in this class. I consider myself a “somewhat” techie person and feel that more practice with using these tools is necessary. There are so many usernames and passwords to remember it can get very confusing.
Late last week I spent time researching for my Current and Emerging Technology Issue paper. It took me a while to find something that I was really interested in. Once I found the topic, I ran into a bit of a problem finding truly worthy articles. The librarian that I worked with mentioned that sometimes it is hard to find credible sources as much of my topic is new and still being researched. Either way, I was able to find my sources and I just completed my annotated bibliography. I am feeling as though I am pretty on top of things.

Technology

I find technology to be very interesting, but also very intimidating. Smiles!