Learning-acquiring skills to blog

First, I want to introduce myself. My name is Cara Fowler, I am an Applied Exercise Science major at the University of New England, and my career goal is to become a physical therapist and help people that are suffering from pain that is unnecessary to become pain-free. I have a bubbly personality and I love to smile. If I had to choose one thing to keep forever, I would choose my friends and family because I have been blessed to have such wonderful people in my life that give so much and have shaped who I am today. I'm a hard-worker, and currently work at McDonalds, as a crew trainer, and Old Navy, as a sales floor associate.

I hope that this course will help me become more active on blogs, because I believe that they're a wonderful way to explore society and to get more in-sight to what is actually happening within communities.

Originally when I heard about this summer class, I didn't think that blogging would be difficult. However, I was mistaken. Setting up my account to this blog was very simple, but choosing a design and making it what I want was a little more difficult than I expected. The easy part of customizing this blog was describing myself--but I guess most everyone finds talking about themselves pretty easy..So, I chose to write a little bit about myself first. Next, I chose to conquer the more difficult task-designing a layout that suited me and choosing a picture to place on my profile. I decided to not make an avatar of myself, because I just wanted to make my life simple, even though I am not too keen on having my face on the internet. My original goal was to also keep the design simple simple, however, once I started the process I found so many interesting things that this site offers, and could hardly choose what I wanted to do. In the end, I finally chose a pattern that suits me-a fun and pink pattern that's really busy in order to keep you on your toes.I also chose to do three columns because my favorite number is three. I also think that the three columns allows the blog to be more spaced out and puts emphasis on my blog posts. I believe that the layout is one more thing that allows personalization to a blog, and will really make it your own.

Next on my to-do-list was to customize the privacy settings of my blog. I am a very firm believer that too much should not be put on the internet, which is why all information on my Facebook is private and why I chose to make this blog as private as possible as well. This is why I chose to not have my blog in Blogger.com's listings, to not have search engines find my blog, and to not allow visitors e-mail my post to other friends.

I believe that learning to blog will help me in my professional career by allowing me to keep in contact with other physical therapists. By doing so, I will be able to learn about how different PTs are using different exercises for different injuries. This will help me to be a better physical therapist because I will have a broader range of knowledge and will be allowed to learn from different colleagues rather than only the things I learned in school.