Blogging Experience

    I am really glad that I got to participate in this blogging experience.  Since I never had my own blog before I really appreciated the blog creation component of this class.  Since this was the first blog I created I kept thinking about am I doing this right? Am I posting comments the way they are suppose to be posted?  Throughout this semester my confidence with blogging has definitely grown.  The constraints of this assignment often held me back from wanting to post ideas about various educational topics.  For instance, there would be an article or resource that I found that made me think of another topic in education, but since it wasn't my blog topic I didn't feel as though I could comment on it.  Also, I feel that in the very beginning of my blog I grouped a couple ideas together in one post, resulting in my running low on ideas for additional blog postings near the end of the semester.

  There are a couple things that I learned from this experience.  For starters, I learned that blogs aren't really that hard to create and manage.  I always thought they would be time consuming to create, but that is not the case.  Also, I like how blogs can be a single location where a person can see an ample amount of resources and opinions on a single topic or various topics.  It makes it very convenient when trying to learn about something new.

  Looking back on my blogging experience there are a couple aspects in which I feel I could improve upon.  One thing would be to relate my blog more to the comments from the people who followed my blog.  I feel that this would help the followers to feel more connected with content being provided as well as me being more connected to them.  I would also provide more links to resources as well as talk more about personal experiences with the topic.  I feel that this would provide with a more rich context for any given topic.  Overall, I really enjoyed this experience and thank you for all of your comments!!

How to create your own mashup

  I thought this week I would try and find information on how to create your own mashup.  I looked through a couple of websites of step by step procedures helping you set up a mashup, but each step I found very confusing.  The language that was used seemed very confusing to me, so confusing that it seemed like you had to have a background in technology in order to set one up.  I'll provide a link below of one of the websites I looked at, and I was wondering if any of you had an opinion on why you thought they might make them difficult to set up.  Or do you think with time this is something that may become easier.

http://www.ehow.com/how_6956418_make-google-maps-mashup.html