Wow. I thought I was pretty good with technology until now. I have never heard of this WordPress blogging site before and I am overwhelmed with it to say the least. I have never even used Canvas, so figuring out how that works has also been quite the experience for me. I hope I’ve set everything up correctly for this blog. I was confused how to add a new post, so I am just editing the first post that was automatically posted for me. I feel like this website and this course is already really scattered and random. I’ve felt very overwhelmed with this class so far and it’s only week 1, so I am hoping I will be able to figure out this website as well as Canvas pretty soon.
The page for setting up a signature for a gmail account was very helpful and I think I got it figured out. The only thing I dislike about this signature is the fact that it is now going to be on all of my emails. If I email another professor from a different class, why would he need or want to know my WordPress address for my WGSS class? It just doesn’t really make sense to me why we are making a “permanent” signature only for this class. The set up was easy, though, so I guess I can’t complain too much.
The text-to-speech function is cool and often handy, however I would prefer to just read on my own. I do use this function on my iPhone sometimes when I am feeling lazy.
UPDATE: I have tried to post this blog several times, but the site keeps crashing and then goes back to the “Edit Post” page. It tells me it autosaved my post from before but it didn’t save anything new that I had written. This is extremely frustrating…