An Educational Technology Journal--Or Is It?

            This post is partially the result of me realizing that I have not yet written about my final journey with the footnotes which has been a slightly frustrating but ultimately victorious venture; however, this post is also partially the result of me procrastinating writing up my reflection on my final project.   [ 1 ]             A long time ago, aka two months ago, I thought it would be a great idea to write all my unnecessary yet (in my opinion) generally entertaining thoughts in a foot note so that the body of my post would not become an unreadable mess. However, I can’t just transfer over the footnotes that I made in Microsoft Word to Blogger because, as my professor explained, what Microsoft does behind the scenes to get footnotes to work has to be done manually and explicitly by me first in Blogger. I began to write of this phenomenon here , and even though ...

For our latest project we have to find a data set, explore the data set, pose and answer questions based on that data, create a visualization of said data, and finally post about the experience. Currently, I have yet to even find a dataset let alone do all the other tasks. The problem arises from a difficulty in finding data that involves a topic I care about, appears reliable, is updated enough where I feel that the data is still relevant, and is accessible enough to my humanities centered brain that I can formulate questions about it. Why are you writing a post then, I hear some of you ask, well read on and find out!

  Writing is hard. A bit on the nose to be sure, but I find that sometimes the longer I wait to start writing something—e.g. this post—the harder it seems to get my thoughts to travel from my head to the tips of my fingers and onto this digital page. Frustratingly, I tend to monologue to myself the perfectly pithy and entertaining introduction whenever I have neither access to the proper technology nor the freedom with which to obtain said access, like when I’m driving. I suppose I could always verbalize aforementioned monologue and then transcribe it later, but that’d be making my life too easy, wouldn’t it? Even though I know that no one is a harsher critic of myself or my writing than I am, and that no one is likely to really care if one or even multiple posts are not up to par writing-wise with previous ones, I still get the paralyzing anxiety of not making myself properly or adequately understood. That’s more of a philosophical question than this blog I created for my class ...

This is just a short post to both share some new information I found.   EDIT AS OF 9/30 3:38 PM: I went through various trial and errors trying to get the linked articles’ advice to work, but I wasn’t successful. I eventually asked my professor for help and he linked me to this article which you should probably use if you are having similar problems with footnotes that I was. I am tempted to just delete this post but I figured it’s good evidence of working through a technological issue.