my techknowledgey (or lack there of)

So I am the guy who doesn't do technology at all.  I didn't have a computer through out middle school or high school so the only computer access I had was through the school and that is quite limited.  My point being, I wasn't exposed to a lot of the technology that eventually evolved into something greater.  I never had a myspace.  I didn't get a facebook until my junior year of high school.  I used a walk-man (for those of you who remember those) until that same year and my sister was nine years old at the time had learned to send a text message long before I did. And I finally got around to downloading itunes my freshman year of college (yeah that was last year by the way)  I say all of this to get the point across that I didn't do the technology thing at all.  But we live in a world where it is such a huge part of our lives that you can barely escape any one of these things.  I learned in my senior year of High School that in my profession I'm going to need to be well acquainted and savvy in various way with technology.  I am studying to be a music minister/worship pastor and when I shadowed the music minister at my church most all he would deal with was technology.  Recording songs and podcast (and publishing them to itunes), working with the sound equipment, blogging and many other things that scared the crap out of me!  But it did bring me to a point where I realized I need to have this technology in my life and learn to use it fluently for, if nothing else, job security.

So I finally get to college and I am required to take a technology for musicians class.  Everyone talks about this class as if it were so easy.  I don't think I fully understood one assignment that I was given the first time (yes even the ones about Microsoft word).  But I knew going in there I would come out having learned something everyday.  I still remember the first day when I had to ask the instructor how to turn the computer on.  But I have seen what technology can do for me and how useful it can be.  The greatest thing was when I figured out I can actually do some of this stuff.  It really just took a few concepts that are pretty basic but can be transferred into just about any program.  My teacher taught me to think about technology in a certain way that helped me to accomplish things and figure them out on my own (well let's be real here baby steps isn't small enough to determine my progress but I was moving!).  But overall I now have a general concept of the different programs and how to use them.   It really does amaze me the things that I can do and how all of the programs in my technology class that we've explored will be helpful for my future career in specific ways