"I love educational technology...NOT!"

“I love educational technology...NOT!”
During my academic career I have had good times and some bad times using technology. The most frustrating time I think I have ever had with technology was when I tried to create my second web-page for my only grade in a class that took place in France/Spain. I had to create some type of project that needed the professor’s approval, and I put off thinking about doing anything so at the last moment, I said “Hey how about a webpage that is like a online journal of our trip?” The teacher loved the idea. Luckily I didn’t need to keep a daily online journal (which now is known as a “Blog”) about the trip. The professor liked the idea about this journal so much that he, at the time, had it linked it to the University of Cincinnati’s department of Romance Languages. At this time in my life I was comfortable with how to use a computer, but I had no idea how to create a webpage. The deadline was coming up and I had no idea how to even begin how to make a webpage. I typed out everything that I needed for the journal in both Spanish and English, but I wasn’t sure how to get it onto the web. I checked out a lot of books from the library which was a whole lot of technical jargon that I did not begin to understand. I was trying to write HTML to post but I was coming up with nothing. I bought the rights to a URL , www.elosoprowles.com, but I found that just buying the rights does not help you if you can’t write in the “cyber language” to post information. I was at my wits end when a good friend of mine told me about his upstart web site called “Blogger.” This web site allowed me to write all of my information down or in my case copy and paste it and it wrote the information in this HTML language that could be posted on my URL. I finished a okay looking webpage that had links to different pictures on the trip (at the time you couldn’t put pictures right on Blogger like you can now) that detailed our trip. The professor loved my project and was very impressed that he made the final project from that point forward a web page about the trip. I was very lucky to have my friend tell me about Blogger and how it helped me get a good grade in my class. Here is a link to see that online journal from eight years ago.
http://elosopoderoso.blogspot.com/ As a disclaimer, my rights to the original page have long expired so I posted it on Blogger four years later, so the hyperlinks no longer work. The pictures and the original HTML is out there somewhere floating in cyberspace...I just don’t want to go find it.