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 I am excited to be here and meet all of you. But I'm also nervous about the prospect of using many technology tools for this course. I had a hard time figuring out how to create an url when I set up this blog. It was such relief when I finally got a valid url. Now I'm struggling to make my page look interesting with a design...Thanks for your patience while I'm experimenting with the tools. I foresee many more barriers and challenges ahead as I absolutely have no skills with new technology. I'm listening to podcast for the first time, and what is RSS feed that our instructor ask us to join? I feel so lost at this time. Hope by end of this course, I will have more confidence with using these tools. I look forward to learning with you and be guided by the work you share.

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