Week Eleven

Even though I was not present in class, and my absence was excused, being absent at such a critical point in the semester is not something I would recommend. I am behind as it is in the class and now i find myself falling even shorter. Deadlines are coming quick and its going to take a lot of motivation and time to push through everything.

I learned we are getting a break from class in order to work on our projects. This is give me a lot more time to get things done and possibly a few extra hours of sleep at night. The extra time is just what I need in order to get these projects done!

Week Ten

Its week Ten in Media 366! The semester is almost over with Thanksgiving right around the corner. This week we only had Tuesday class. World Wide Web and search engines were the theme of the day. I am excited to get out there and create a custom search engine. I didn't even know that one could do such a thing! HOW COOOOOOL! I think it could be a really neat teaching tool when providing students resources and credible sights for their research projects.

Week Nine

Two more projects are introduced this week.... along with the trunk monkeys! I see these upcoming desktop publishing and web design products as being very good learning tools and maybe even something to use for in the future when I am actually out there and teaching. I think that in classes like this it is nice to have big projects that allow students to have a big opportunity to demonstrate all of the skills they have acquired. However I am nervous that I will get busy again in the next couple weeks and start to fall behind.... with good planning tools that have been provided I hope to over come procrastination.

Week Eight

Today was a big week for planning our story boards again. Now we are full fledged into the second demonstrations as well. I did mine this week and what a disaster! UGH! I was fully prepared the night before in what i was going to say and everything and when i got up to the front to present. Everything went out the brain. I missed the smallest steps, but those steps (like selecting the right tool) threw me off completely. I don't know what happened. Hopefully I can stay focused and get my story board completed by Sunday as well as well as look to the future and try to get a head on the Concept Demonstrations for Web and Desktop publishing that are due next week. For the first time, time management is becoming a bit of an issue.

Week Seven

This week we are introduced to storyboarding again. I have finally decided what my movie is going to be about and I am in the brainstorming process. I am not the most creative person, nor do I have a lot of extra time to create a movie in my free time, but if this movie turns out decent I hope that my major will be able to put it to use. It is a rough semester and I am starting to fall behind. If I want to remain successful it is critical that i stay on top of things from this point on.