I want to sigh in relief...but it is more like a hiccup. Ahhhh, I'm done...oh wait, maybe the font should be bigger here. OK, now I'm done. Oopps I forgot to add a link to.......and on it goes.
I will sigh on Thursday. I will sigh and sleep in the car as we head out on a road trip. Sorry, (not sorry) to my husband. He will have to do all the driving because I will be sleeping. I am starting to get excited and the idea of being done. But in between the idea of being done and actually being done makes me nervous. Will Dr. Redmond call and say, "Your font is too small, your sentences too long and you forgot to do blog #147 on April the 8th." Those are the things that I dream about. Will someone tell us the week before that we have a six minute video to complete...oh wait, that already happened. I am sort of in "worst-case-senario" mode. And I probably will be until Thursday. If the amount of pride in accomplishment is directly proportional to the amount of work and time put into this trimester....we should all feel extremely proud of ourselves on Wednesday! Until Wednesday my friends!
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If so, you must be in Touro's Innovative Learning Cohort 11. And like me, I am sure you have spent a lot of time with your computer. Everyone is saying, "You can do it! The end is in sight!" "The end is in sight?!"....should I feel relief? Or panic? Can I get it all done in time? The answer has to be yes! I will get it done. I will stop fiddling with fonts, color combinations and looking for that "just right" graphic. I will get it done. My current approach to working is to work on one project (video, website, or poster) until I am so sick of it that I want to spit. Then I move to another project and repeat spitting procedure. As of now, I have worked on all three projects, but have not finished any. I have yet to decide if this is a good tactic or not...but it the only one that I've got right now. I have run into a few glitches on Weebly. I will walk away from my computer and when I get back it will show the below message. So I couldn't work on that page. To add a bit more fun, after refreshing, my work was erased...twice. Lesson learned, type in a google doc and then cut and paste into Weebly... super annoying.
My other wonderings are about the poster. I looked at other posters and found quite a variety in the headings on the posters. I also found that the wording on the posters was not as "Academic Journal Jargon-y" as our research papers were.
Alright, time to get back to one of my projects. I avoided the video...I had nightmares about the video. I finally had to face my fears and sit down and do it. Time? Do you have a lot of it? Well, you need to in order to do a 90 second video. I think my 90 second video has taken about 10 hours...and I am not finished.
I am using iMovie, but I don't have a lot of video footage. Which I have found is ok. I am using slides to animate objects and then using screencast-o-matic to video that animation and then uploading that into iMovie. So far it is working out ok. The tricky part will be that I can't edit the clips very easily. Some of my slide animations are too slow, I will need to edit them in slides, re-screencast them and re-upload. But I think it is giving me the look I want rather than relying on the limited use of the titles in iMovie. I am not entirely done...I need to cut about 16 seconds...and I want to add something. That is a tricky place to be. I think I will wait and get some feedback from my cohort friends to see if they think something needs to be added, and what they feel could be shorter or cut. I find that if I wander too far in this iMovie forest I can get lost for hours on the wrong path. I think my best best is to sit here and wait for reinforcements. Isn't that what you are supposed to do when lost, sit tight and wait for help? |