Meditation Help?

Sorry about the lack of updates. I haven't been working on Digital Pagan. I had a bad cold and I've been working on my spa.

Anyway, I'm taking an online course about animal totems now. My final assignment is a meditation, where we look into various meditation techniques, then meditatate and write a paper on what I experience with my animal guides.

Confession time guys: I've never really meditated before, and I have no idea how. I've done some googling, and found some useful sites, but I'm still wary.

Does anyone have any advice?

I was thinking about just doing a guided meditation, for a first-timer, do you think that would be better?