reflection #1

I find it interesting that creating this blog puts me in a similar position to the students I teach. I often tell students learning to search new databases that it's important to look at the computer screen closely to figure out how to search the database. Often all the information is available, it just takes time to see where all the functions of the database reside on the screen. As I began creating this blog, I realized I became frustrated that I not only couldn't find, but I didn't know, what I needed to complete the process. I also was frustrated that I wasn't able to do it quickly. It took time to search the screen, figure out what the different links were and to get it to do what I wanted it to do. We do live in a world where we want computer applications to be intuitive, but it's not always so.