Technology and learning new things

I have learned so much this semester about technology. It has been scary for me, very scary for me. I do not like to be stretched, I mean really who does. But you know what it has been the best thing that could have happened to me. I needed a class like this, not one that just challenged me academically, but one that forced me to learn new things about something I had a comfortable familiarity with. I thought coming into this class that I was up on technology, I was good. Boy was I mistaken!! There is a huge difference between knowing how to check your email and knowing how to imbed a code or a widget. I had never even heard those terms before this class! I now realize that these things are everywhere. I did not realize that when I paste a new background on my my space account that I am copying a code. That actually calmed me when I realized that. It was one of those, " Hey you have done something similar before, so just calm down." Fellow classmates have helped eased my anxieties and frustrations as well and you do not know how much that meant to me. It is comforting to hear somebody else say that they also struggled or were not completely sure of one aspect or another. For a while I really thought I had gotten in over my head. I have not and I am so glad that I pushed through my self doubts. I really needed to do this! I know that sounds a bit strange, but now that I am getting to the otherside of this class things seem so much more clear. I would not say that technology and I are best friends, but I definitly understand it more now.