New Programs, New Problems, New Possibilities

So I have been diligently working on an ebook that I can use as an on-line portfolio for all things education related.  I am excited to have this digital compilation of my skills as they relate to education. I love the idea of being able to share it with potential new employers (heaven forbid that I should ever lose my job or have to move). I love that I can go and edit it at the drop of a hat and not have to worry about resubmitting new information/packets (via snailmail, email, or otherwise) to multiple people at multiple addresses.
   
It's always frustrating to learn a new program.  After watching Dr. John's tutorial videos I felt pretty excited and fairly confident that I could accomplish creating an ebook portfolio. There are always little glitches in learning the ins and outs of a new program, but this one is really very user friendly. My only gripe so far has been that the site itself seems to be rather slow.  At one point, the Flash-something-or-other completely crashed. Thankfully the program has a feature that asks you to save every so many minutes, so the work that I lost was only minimal. Whew!

It's amazing to me how quickly one can adapt to new features and new ways of doing things on the web.  It amazes me that they can change the layout of a sight or program and you hear people completely freaking out because they can't find anything.  In a matter of hours to days they have figured out where all of the features are again and would be just as upset if anything were to change in this new layout! I am just as guilty. I think what it boils down to is how busy everyone is.  We like knowing exactly where to find everything because we all just want to log on, get it done, and move on to the next thing. We don't want to spend even a few minutes or hours reestablishing our virtual equilibrium.