Applying "How I learned" priciples. Oct 1, 2012

    

     I wish I could get into this assignment, but I am having a hard time concentrating, focusing and even grasping ‘how to’ in regards to the particulars. I read the assigned reading and took from it the importance of ‘practicing’ in the efforts of perfecting a skill or talent, but I am not following how this ‘free writing’ or‘blogging’ thing works.

     I am struggling with the concept of writing down my thoughts and ‘posting’ them for people to read. It is one thing to have an instructor critique my writing, but something entirely different when peers and / or strangers offer their opinion about my ability to formulate a cognoscente thought into legible and descriptive words that mean something to someone other then myself.

     Set that aside and take into consideration the fact that I don’t understand googleblogger and you might begin to understand that I feel extremely inadequate, with not just the younger people in my class, but with myself. As self indulgent as this may come across, I used to be very confident in my ability to ‘keep up’ with technology and its ever-changing advances. But somewhere along the way, I seem to have lost the ability to improvise and now feel as though I am drowning in a sea of ‘on-line tools’ that have been created and developed by the ‘barely legal’ adult who’s greatest worry in life is whether or not they should buy the ‘new Lg4’ from Verizon.

     The only thing I can take away from this assignment right now is this… I will continue to plug away at Googleblogger in an honest effort of expanding my working knowledge of this on-line tool and I will work harder at opening myself up to the criticisms of others in regards to my writing abilities.

     Below is a picture of my motivation - Kelsey and Kyla -

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