Good morning once again. As was the case last week, it’s Saturday morning and I am back at it. I must admit that this class is quite intimidating for me because so much of it involves the use of a computer. Not that I haven’t used computers before, in fact I’ve been using a computer for quite a while now but I would hardly rate my skills as good. I know the basics, e-mail and the internet and simple things like that. But when I got into this class and found out how it would be conducted, a shiver went down my spine. Although I am apprehensive, I keep telling myself that this will be good for me in that I will be forced to learn something new about computer usage. To borrow a phrase (I’m not sure from whom), this will bring me out of the stone age.
Thursday evening I took my first timid steps into the world of blogs. I plugged a few phrases into Google and then began my search for blogs pertaining to my topic. Much of what I found wasn’t what I was expecting. As I continued to surf, I even began to get frustrated. Since I was frustrated, I began to look around the classroom, the younger students were having a good time and seemed at ease. The only other person in my class that is close to my age was also frustrated. It seems we were having a difficult time finding what we were looking for. I guess beginners luck plays no part when it comes to computers. Mercifully, the class came to an end quickly and, still frustrated, I left for home and for a good night’s sleep.
Friday morning arrived much too soon, as the weekday mornings always do. I reluctantly got out of bed and went through the morning routine. Once I had my bowl of cereal in hand it was time to log on to the internet and check the news. I found that there was an article on my topic of Tibet so I printed it out. While it was printing, I stumbled onto NBC News World Blog. http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/ Since I came across it by chance, I wasn’t sure I could find it again. So, I printed a page and now I have the necessary info to get right to it. After I found this blog, my feelings of frustration began to dissipate a little.
As it’s name indicates, The NBC News World blog covers a wide variety of news stories. The authors are NBC news correspondents and they write about events that are occurring around the world. As I scanned it again this morning I found current events covered that ranged from swimming with whales to the day to day struggle for survival in a cruel world. I found stories on Tibet and Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinians. All were current and up to date. I found the content to be very informative and each article had many responses. Photographs were placed appropriately and were pertinent to the subject matter being written about. In my opinion this is a very well designed site.
In closing, I found this site to be very easy to read and to search through. To me, it’s very user friendly. I like it! I think in the future I may just make extensive use of it. OK, I know what you are thinking, I’m just a rookie when it comes to blogging so I don’t know any better and that may be the case. However, I have found something that I’m comfortable with so I’ll stick with it for a while. Who knows, after a while I may branch out and find other things I like as well.
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I totally agree with you when it comes to this class, it was very intimidating. The professor was talking about doing all these blogs and how much writing it will be. In all honesty I was going to switch teachers and take the class on the Annandale campus. It was nothing against her but I didn’t think I would be able to keep up with the pace and my full time job. I could have never been more wrong! I definitely think that NBC World New Blog would be an excellent source for your blog. The name alone lets you know that you are going to get educated information. I really don’t know much about the situations in Iraq, Tibet , Afghanistan and Palestine. I’ll have to check back often to get information on the topic.
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