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Week 5 Assignment 2:  Blog Reflection Paper

Aaron Bicknell

INT100: Fundamentals of Information Technology & Literacy

Prof. John Santorio

September 20, 2021

 

The Bick Pens (the-bick.blogspot.com)

 

 

I have vague recollections of writing classes trying to teach me to write in a journal to collect and memorialize ideas and thoughts that can be later referenced.  Journaling is a practice that I never took to.  I picture Doogie Houser pondering in front of the blinking cursor.  My experience creating a blog and subsequently posting to it, however, was enjoyable.  I found it much less cumbersome than my previous experiences when doing it for a purpose.  Just writing down my thoughts is not purpose enough.  I enjoyed building a place for my work to go.  I am still hesitant about its publicity as I feel as though I'm being judged.  You can find my posts here The Bick Pens (the-bick.blogspot.com). 

Although I started hesitantly, Google's blogger help section suggests enabling content sharing to get more traction, followers, and views.  I made sure that my blog was made public and that sharing was enabled (Blogger Help. 2021).  Another item that was presented in our text was the ability to add plugins to our pages.  In our discussions in class, I was made aware of a google translate plugin that allows for converting the text on the blog to many different languages, which I have added for folks who are not native English speakers.

The first issue that I had was choosing a title.  There was a lot of pondering, thinking, and pontification, and then the current title hit me and is personal to me yet is full of puns and plays with meanings in multiple ways.  Another issue that I came across was choosing what picture to share on my profile.  I'm not a selfie-taker, so I do not have many photos from which to choose.  After being reminded that I had not completed my profile, I just picked one and uploaded it.  Another issue that I had was deciding upon the formality of the posts.  I didn't' want it to be as formal as an APA paper for class, although I knew it would need to retain some of this rigor for the assignments. 

This blog will serve as a reminder of the first class within my major and hopefully will be a building block to share more learning as I progress towards my degree.  I want to explore tagging and topics and the possibility of linking related posts.  Hopefully, the-Bick Pens blog will give others some insight into my education and experiences, and it should grow as I do.  In the future, I will strive to continue to add writings and content, and I would like to create buckets for school, work, and hobbies. 

 

 

References

 

Blogger Help.  (2021). Retrieved from https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/97933?hl=en&ref_topic=6321959

Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2017). Computing technology for all. Retrieved from zybooks.zyante.com/