I almost didn’t get this post in! Mainly because I’ve been working all day.

As much as I love Wednesdays, they leave me almost no time to breathe, study, or seriously crank out any creative work. But I love them primarily because they remind me of what I enjoy best – learning new technologies.

Today, I finally got to put my knowledge in Qualtrics to good use after a ITS training session about a month ago. I learned how to use display logic when creating questions, different formatting ideas, and stylistic choices. Though I’m very much in the rough stages, hopefully I’ll be able to use that training in other respects.

I just finished up a WordPress section – the results you can clearly see here, and even though it’s not a program that you learn such as HTML/Python/etc., I enjoy finding out new things about the sites I use everyday.

At my other job, I get to work in the official IT/digital scholarship department, so I’m around books and computers all day (living the dream)! I’d be lying severely if I said that I was anywhere near any expert using Adobe Photoshop, Bridge, and ABBY FineReader, but I’ve definitely improved a lot over the school year.

A lot of technical learning for me at least is just watch, theorize, test, and apply – but I know that everyone has their own way of deciding things. For me, I really like to jump in it and make tons of mistakes. And while it was pretty soul-crushing having to go over some projects again – and again – and again – it was very educational to feel my way through things at my own pace. It also probably helps that I have a very patient boss, which probably comes with the territory when working in IT.

I’ll continue with some more points tomorrow on learning tech, but that’s all for now!