So I have chosen to blog about my experience setting up this blog. Now, I decided that this seemed quite simple, however as we have been discussing, nothing with technology is simple. I got through creating the blog okay, I was even able to create my first post. I located my group members blogs and just knew that I was home free. Well then came the RSS Feed. That's when it all just went so wrong. I have learned that I am a very literal person when it comes to directions. I am looking for the exact phrasing, wording, and I will follow them step by step. Well, in this case that didn't work to well for me. As I was sitting here in tears, trying to figure out how to link these blogs (and no one could help) I had to keep clicking on stuff. I finally went back and reread the directions matching a few terms instead of exact terms and the river of tears began to subside. In the end, it actually ended up being way easier than I originally thought (now that it's completed I can laugh, I think).
This whole experience made me think about the frustration that a student feels when they are trying to use a new technology tool, app, game (silly Flappy Birds, oh wait I digress), iPad, iPod, etc. However, I also know the feeling of accomplishment when the task is completed and you can actually say that YOU figured it out on your own. I have gone from frustration to joy and as my six year old says, "O.K. mommy, Really, it wasn't that serious!"
With that said.......Enjoy the RIDE!!!!
Did you also figure out that the blog roll doesn't work unless we have a post? There are no "help" items in Google for that - who would want to connect to an empty blog!? I only figured it out because your link worked fine and Angela's and mine did not.
ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting to Google search "Student Frustration." There are a million links. I like this one about managing frustration.
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/insp/html/managing_frustration.html
Here is another question - how do we embed links in the words of comments to make them prettier? I don't see anyway to edit HTML in comments.
I can completely relate to your frustration with the RSS feed blog roll. I couldn't figure it out and I am just like you with being literal with words. I kept saying "this doesn't tell me anything" when looking at the directions on the link that the professor provided. I clicked around ehow.com to related links and found one with better directions and was able to get my blog roll going.
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