Week 1-First post!

I already had a Gmail account, so I didn't have to go thru that. Creating the
blog was simple. As I was exploring the blog website (since this is my very
first blog) I found out that I could link my cellphone to my blog so that I can
text something and it will be published on my blog. Awesome! Talk about
convenient! Of course I set that up right away (which, by the way, is very
simple).

In this course I expect to learn a lot about visual art, artistic techniques,
artists and their works, and other things of this nature. I'm more of a musician
(I've played the violin for 13 years now and am teaching myself to play piano),
so this is definitely a different form of art than what I am used to, but I am
still interested nonetheless in learning about the different ways people use art
to express themselves.

This is not my first online course, and it is one of 3 that I am taking this
semester. I know that they're a lot of work but the fact that I can do them at
my own pace and work them around my schedule (I work part time) is really
convenient for me. Also the fact that I don't have to drive to campus from the
southtowns for class will definitely save me some money on gas, which is a
definite plus for a poor college kid! But all online courses are unique in their
demands and I am very interested to see what this one will bring.