Blog: Please finalize blogging around your journey from rough to final cut and any challenges or successes you can share with the group.
I would say for me the two biggest challenges throughout this whole process were time and (I’m inventing a new term here) ignorance procrastination. This can also be confused with creativity procrastination. As with everyone else, I’ve got a very busy life, and I don’t like to procrastinate, I just don’t feel good about myself when I procrastinate. That being said, ignorance procrastination, as defined by me, is when you procrastinate because you don’t know how to do something. Not quite sure where to start...so you put it off. Related to ignorance procrastination is creativity procrastination. We’ve been given numerous opportunities throughout this program to show our creative side, and sometimes I’m just out of creative ideas, so I put something off until a brainstorm hits me. Sometimes...a brainstorm never hits, and I wind up completing work below my standards just to get the assignment done. In reflection...even though writing the paper over the summer was a very frustrating, daunting task, I’m very thankful that I had all the time during the summer to work on it. It makes me realize that finalizing my capstone, producing videos, posters, infographics, blogging, etc., would’ve been a little easier if we had the time we have during the summer break. As I write this blog during my prep at school (three days late) I can honestly say I don’t think I’m going to finish everything before the deadlines. Three kids, wife, sports schedules, mascot and football craziness at Napa High, 4H pigs, home improvement, and teaching full time are all on burners in front of my capstone burner. I’m going to keep plugging away, because nobody likes these dark clouds of responsibility looming overhead, but I’m also not going to over stress about it. I’ve set the goal of getting my Master’s Degree and I’m going to get it...I just might have to slow my pace a little bit. But it will get done. I appreciate Touro’s patience with me.
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Blog for the week: Give us an honest appraisal (venting?) of your next journey steps around trying to produce your Capstone Project video. What problems did you encounter? How did you solve them? The intent is open a useful discussion that can help raise the bar for everyone.
At the time of this Blog, it is a Friday afternoon before Spring Break, so I apologize for any ramblings. I have to admit that I’m still struggling and procrastinating a little bit on my video. I’ve created a list of all the things that I want to get done over the break and the video is on the top of that list. My next step is to edit my script, because the feedback I got from the group was that it was too long. Once I get that down to about 90 seconds, I’m going to record it into iMovie. My last blog I said I wasn’t going to use iMovie because everything I’ve done so far has been on my Lenovo ThinkPad, but I’ll be using our family MacBook Pro for the video. I hope there’s no problems uploading the video to LIL after it’s complete...so far I haven’t used the Mac for any Touro stuff, makes me a little nervous. After the audio, I need to upload my videos and pics to iMovie. I struck out when I hooked up my iPhone to the Mac, iMovie didn’t recognize it as a camera, but Roger said I would work around that by downloading the pics/vids to iPhoto, then transfer them over. Haven’t had a chance to do that yet, partially because of time, partially out of fear of failure and not having a back-up plan in place yet...this is the first thing on the docket for me this weekend, not only so I can check off the assignments on the HW doc, but the video is the only thing I need to get finished for my “Home” page to be complete on the Capstone! Good Luck all... |
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