ENGAGE OR ENRAGE

Prensky (2001) states that young people will be enraged if they are not engaged in education.
I found myself rather enraged a number of times when trying to engage with some of the learning tools prescribed during my E-Learning course at CQUniversity. I agree whole heartedly with Prensky and because I was not able to engage with these tools I did become enraged and unfortunately it that I will not return at a later date and make another attempt at engaging with these tools.
I had difficulty engaging with Picnik, TeacherTube, iTunes and Powepoint Quiz. I know I am partly to blame for some of the frustration, I have little patience, knowledge and confidence when dealing with technology and so this does not help me. But I do value my time and if ICT will save me time then I will persevere.
Problems with:
Picnik - I just counld not get past the first two pages. For 20 minutes I just kept going between the two pages. I needed to do something with the Adobe settings and I was pressing all the buttons I was prompted to press. But to no avail, I was lost in ICT space.
TeacherTube - I attempted to enter TeacherTube from the moodle website and a message popped up telling me I needed to be invited to join. I would really like to learn more about TeacherTube as I have been lead to beleive it is a great source of resources for teachers. So if anyone can help me here please do.
iTunes - Was very confusing, the instructions on the moodle site were not accurate. That was until several days later when an email arrived thanking me for downloading iTunes. Then everything fell into place. Intially felt like I was wasting my time, however I think I need to investigate iTunes just a bit more and I might get the hang of it.
Powerpoint Quiz - Again the moodle instructions were inaccurate. Perhaps this is due to me using the updated version of Powerpoint. Again I lost time and this enraged me as I value my time very much.

Overall I will investigate most of these tools further to see if I can use them in the classroom.