Working with the Class Technology

Wordpress: Overall, using Wordpress has been a major learning experience for me, most of which I have enjoyed very much! Getting together with our group at the beginning I had the most interest in the website, and so I told the group that I would start looking into making the logo. Unfortunately, I have spent it seems like a fair amount more time working on the website than any of my partners, as can be seen in the tracked revisions on Wordpress. I have also had 3 private (open to the rest of my group, but no one can make it) sessions with Kristen and her Fellow to go over how to make the website more like how we would like it. I believe that it would be more profitable if the rest of my group would learn how to use the technology of Wordpress better than having to rely on me to change the structure and makeup of the website. I have also had success in meeting with Dr. Case to discuss the specific pages that I will be doing, which gave me more concrete ideas to move forward with. I have encouraged my group members to do the same, however some are not taking the initiative as much as others, and I am afraid that this will hold back the website.
I hope that we will be able to get the Resources section together so that it will not be any copyright issues... as I am very unfamiliar with that kind of stuff, and our session on copyright only helped a little.

Twitter: I love this! I like the new idea that Dr. Case had about only periodically having specific times to Tweet, and it is fun seeing the train of thoughts of other students in the class. I really want to know who some students are! Davidson Biokid has some very interesting comments that I would like to discuss further with him/her!

Blog: This certainly tops my charts on the most beneficial technology for the class. On the web now, it seems like everyone has some type of blog where they can just spew everything about crafts, fitness, food, design, diy-- whatever they are interested in; and this certainly allows me to see how awesome blogging can be! I also appreciate Dr. Case's comments on my posts, I really have something to think about after I write them, and I can improve next time! It's somewhere between a diary and a paper, you can be private, but you want to be valid in your posts, both at the same time.