I know that I have stated in a number of posts for process blog, that I am not at all computer savvy, and completely new to the world of blogs. In fact, I don't think that I have ever even read a blog before this course. So its no surprise to say that this particular project has been a struggle.
In the first stages of this project our professor told us to explore the world of blogging. After looking though blogger.com and reading a few blogs in class I thought I had at least a beginners grasp on this whole blogging thing. Oh boy was I wrong. I quickly realized that the research I had done on blogging, which I thought was adequate, was in fact no where near close enough to the amount that needed to be done. I do admit that I did not put the amount of effort into learning about and understanding blogs in the beginning stages of this project, and after a talk with my professor during class I was forced to come to the conclusion that I was far behind the majority of my classmates. So that day when I got home from class, I sat down on my computer, which is mainly only used for writing papers and facebook, and I explored blogger.com until I positive that I had a grasp on every little aspect that I could manage to find and understand.
At this point I began to feel more confident in my technology skills and began to truly immerse myself in my blog, Hops To It. I discussed in a previous post on my process blog the way by which I came to settle on a blog about beer. At first I though that it was kind of a little weird to dedicate an entire blog to beer, but after writing my first post I realized that, although it can be considered an odd subject, I really did like writing about it and chose to stick with it. After each and every class meeting, my understanding of blogging grew, and after each blog entry I became more comfortable and confident with my blogging skills. Finally after some rough patches concerning aesthetic design, I can honestly say that I am proud of my blog thus far.
Looking to the future, I am excited. I am excited to take what I have learned so far and continue blogging and building upon my new found skills with technology. During the reflection part of my blogging process, I came up with a few ideas that I think are sure to improve my blog and further my technology based education. In my opinion, one of my weaker points of my blog is the aesthetic design. Even though, as I have previously stated, I am light years ahead of where I was before this course on blogs, I still feel as though my aesthetic design leaves room for improvement. As the semester continues I plan on exploring the aesthetic aspects of blogs a lot deeper. I am going to take what I have learned from this project, suggestions from my peers both classmates and friends, and also do some more research and hopefully I will be able to mold my blog into the blog I can picture in my mind. I also have a few plans for future posts. I want to incorporate another one of my passions, sociology, into my clubhouse blog. Being a sociology major, and having an immense amount of love for the subject I want to create at least one post on the social construction of a college campus and the roll beer plays.
Overall this has been a stressful, yet amazing learning process for me. I always considered myself as someone who was horrible with computers and technology, but I can honestly say I have my foot in the door and can't wait to continue my technology based education.
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