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Wow.

Although I can take some pride in the fact that I can keep on top of what the trends are, I am not often a participant in them right away, especially when it comes to new technology. I chose the podcast group because it challenged my user-content savvy as well as because I knew that it was bound to come in handy out in the field.

And come to find out, podcasting is so easy! It was and will continue to be challenging because of the thought that needs to go into content, time, and so forth, and I’m sure that there are elements of the more complex podcast that would take more time to grasp.  But I was so surprised that this activity which I assumed had to be difficult to understand because of the equipment and technology involved, turned out to be quite simple.  In fact, a first-timer’s podcast is almost as simple to make as a Word document.

My group was great and I felt we really learned together, which is maybe why it seemed so easy.  We learned by playing around with different programs and tools and figuring out what worked for us. At the end of the time, I really felt like I could take what I had learned and apply it to a job. It taught me also that, intimidating as things may seem, once you play around with it, screw up a couple times, and get it right a couple times, it’s all cake.  Now I can go on to bigger scarier seeming applications and, hopefully, conquer them as well.