The Boardmaker Ordeal

When I attempted to download Boardmaker Plus, the program would not accept my information for the registration. After numerous attempts, I resigned myself to seeing my husband's help. He asked me what the problem was, since I had apparently stopped the download in progress. This was the first indication that this exercise was not going to go well!
After going over the tutorial and then seeing the step by step instruction for creating an interactive book, I sat down enthusiastically. After several hours of clicking and dragging and starting over about twenty times, my husband arrived and once more filled me in on basic information that I was missing. (I needed to use the Select button.) After several more hours struggling to follow the instructions, I understood what my dyslexic students go through spending hours reading a text that a proficient reader can do in twenty minutes. My enthusiasm had waned considerably!
After viewing the product that I had been able to create with my very limited skills, I saw all the flaws and could do nothing more about them. How do I get all my pages in the same place? Where are those linking arrows ? Is this interactive? How do I do the popups? I felt like my dysgraphic students who survey their handwitten work after intensive effort with dismay. I had some problem solving to do.
What my life experience has taught me is that I will eventually be able to do this with satisfaction because I know there are people to support me and I have the inner resources to make it happen. This keeps me from despairing about my lack of technological know how. I realize that it is this that I need to help my students develop more than anything. I need to support their attempts to create meaningful products and learn new skills, encouraging self-assessment, progress monitoring and goal setting, so they too will have the courage to take risks and hang in there when the going is rough. I also realize most of them could teach me a lot about technology!