My Very First Blog!

Wow. Where to start... 

Well I guess I should start with my name and what the purpose of this blog actually is. So, hi, i'm Lauren Walker and I am currently starting the Early Childhood and Primary Degree at Murdoch University. The purpose of this blog is to interact with my peers as well as share my own thoughts and ideas in the EDN113 - Living and Learning with Technology Unit. This blog is a great way to reflect on my work and involvement throughout the duration of the course.

I honestly had no idea how to start a blog. When I heard that one of the tasks for the semester was to create a blog I was like, what? How on earth am I supposed to do that? I hope we don't have to pay to create one! But luckily, after a bit of researching I discovered that wasn't the case. Creating a blog is free!

This video clip was very good in outlining the basics of a blog and was very simple to understand. I recommend it to anyone who is also feeling abit lost about blogging!

I spent this first week doing a bit of research on blogs, discovering more and more tools to create your own, so things have started to become a bit clearer to me. Although, I have to admit, I am still a bit scared of blogging; what if I use the wrong tool and it turns out completely different to everyone's? What do I even write in a blog? Or what if i'm just so boring that my blog is terrible! 

In the end, I chose to toughen up and start up my blog using Blogger. We were given some great blog guidelines to really help us out on what to put in our blogs as well.

This unit (EDN113) has already challenged me. Give me something like facebook and I will have no trouble navigating myself around it, but since the very first lecture and workshop, I have been introduced to many new tools and concepts so it has definitely taken some time to get used to. I've spent the last week searching around the LMS and reading up on our assignments and tasks for the week. The Technology Toolbox for Educators was very useful in providing me with the information that I needed to know in order to get my blog up and running. I have also discovered how to re-watch my lectures on the student ECHO! It is amazing how much you can do on the internet and I am very excited to see what I can do online by the end of this unit.

Well, there we have it. My very first blog! I hope you enjoy reading it, and please do not hesitate to leave comments and feedback, anything would be very helpful.