Showing posts with label My experience of using new tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My experience of using new tools. Show all posts

Friday, October 2, 2009

The Road Trip to the Blog

Reflections

I would like to share my experience in the past few months in exploring the new tools of establishing this blog. Although I have used other blogs before for family photos, this is the first time that I used Blogger.com to create an information-sharing type of web blog.

It has been fun as I have learnt to use and import gadgets, videos, photos from other websites. I discovered that there is unlimited choices of selections of images and videos from anywhere on the sites. The choices are almost too many that I could hardly had enough time to go through them. In some way, I am glad as my time was so limited between my full-time work and looking after a toddler, that I have to be quite strategic and strict about where to get information from. I had a lot of free time in my hands, I could easily imaging myself 'drowning' into the world of virtue technologies and discovering all sorts of fun sites and games to use.

I have to admit that when I first figured out how to get a video from Youtube onto my site, I was very excited. So I must say that this was the most enjoyable moment of this project. The challenges that I faced, was obviously the time-poor factors, but also my own set-up for the internet access was not really good. I had to often use other friends' internet access in order to complete this blog. It was at times very frustrating when I was struggling with my own access to internet at home.

I am also very conscious that everyone else has a wonderful blog, and my is probably quite basic in terms of its features and adventures in using more new tools. However, I felt that I have surprised myself so far in exploring more than I could imaging. I have definitely come out of this project having learnt many other skills. And I am sure that in the future, I will be a lot more confident about using blogging and exploring new tools.