Guess What... I'm BLOGGGING!!!!!!!!!!

When Erin offered to teach us how to blog, I was both excited and a bit nervous. I once had my own blog (on street style in Victoria), but I had NO idea how to navigate it or make it fancy / cool, and although it became quite popular, and a couple guys signed on, and took it over and basically kicked me off because I was unable to keep up, which has left a sour taste in my mouth about the whole blogging thing...

I've talked with friends before about starting a blog, there are so many things worth talking about publicly, however my insecurities around computer 'stuff' has always prevented me from doing anything besides think / talk about it. But now, here I am, blogging!! Our learning session with Erin was so wonderful, so easy, so much fun!! It's amazing how easy technology can be when its explained in comfortable environment. We learned all the basics, and then got into the 'gadgets' which add some jazz to the plain page. I went home after our session and played around, pushed buttons, screwed up, fixed my mistakes, and within hours I knew what I was doing. So now, just like that I have the skills and abilities to share my voice on the world wide interweb! It's pretty cool, and way more empowering than I thought it would be.

Only a couple weeks ago I was looking at a friend's blog and wishing that I was able to do something like that, but then telling myself it would take too long, be too expensive to learn, be too complicated, but really, it's so easy.

So thanks Erin for pushing me into the realm of cyberspace... I feel strangely at home here, sending my thoughts into the ether... I might just get used to this ;)

Member Meeting

What we have been up to....

Nathalie learning how to start a blog, and mastering it in minutes!

Last night we all met to work on our project! The goal was to introduce the girl to the world of blogging. I feel this was an important experience for us all- girls learning from girls!

Timeline

5pm -7pm: We took pictures and edited them, made facebook interview questions, wrote a reflection response, made an email address for our group-which is the first step of creating a blog

Then we ate dinner all together!

7:30-10:30: We brainstormed interviewquestions, created the blog, learned how to post and how to design ablog, shared our research, discussed what we found in the readings to apply to our project, planned our next meeting and set out tasks to be completed

Goals-

We will have interview questions to email to our 5 participants by Sunday

Nat will write the introduction to explain what our blog/project is about

We will post our reflections

Whitneyresearches blogs to link to

Erin uses quotes from readings for posts that each member then can comment on

Narrow our subject by defining technology further

Fill out our individual contributor profiles

Meet on Monday!