So this project on which Andrew Thomasson and I have embarked is exciting. The filming has become less of "how do I write a research paper adequately?" and more of friends hanging out, and oh, we just happen to also be writing a research paper.
And that makes it really hard to edit the videos well. There's also the fact that our last session clocked in at nearly 70 minutes, and is breaking down into five videos.
I've finished videos six, seven and eight. They're posted up in the Thomasson & Morris Instruction tab if you want to see them. Just keep in mind that I haven't added YouTube annotations yet (all the places that say "click here" will eventually redirect to the other videos in the series), mostly because I didn't want to do it before all ten videos were on YouTube.
This whole problem is compounded by the fact that Mr. Thomasson left for the weekend and so I'm missing half my filter for "is this good or not?" - which is one of the reasons our partnership works so well.
Posting this blog entry is also sort of procrastination. The hardest video is yet to come - the actual "writing the draft" one includes a lot of me just sitting there typing, while Andrew gets up and leaves a few times. We're figuring we'll need to do a voice-over track on it...which means waiting until Andrew gets home tomorrow.
Other things I've done to procrastinate:
--posted to Facebook about my project with Andrew
--tweeted and surfed my timeline
--started planning my courses (i.e. assigned a different colour pen to each class, counted the weeks in the semester, then gave up)
--made some Blue Bottle coffee (if you don't live in the Bay Area, that reference is probably lost on you...and that's a shame. Best coffee in the Bay).
--pretended to do some dishes
--filled up my water bottle
--posted a question on Ask Metafilter (my other favourite time-killing website) to solicit the best humourous works to use in my Language of Humour class
--started reading an essay about writing essays in The Essay Connection (Bloom)
--responded to the following Tweet:
And that makes it really hard to edit the videos well. There's also the fact that our last session clocked in at nearly 70 minutes, and is breaking down into five videos.
I've finished videos six, seven and eight. They're posted up in the Thomasson & Morris Instruction tab if you want to see them. Just keep in mind that I haven't added YouTube annotations yet (all the places that say "click here" will eventually redirect to the other videos in the series), mostly because I didn't want to do it before all ten videos were on YouTube.
This whole problem is compounded by the fact that Mr. Thomasson left for the weekend and so I'm missing half my filter for "is this good or not?" - which is one of the reasons our partnership works so well.
Posting this blog entry is also sort of procrastination. The hardest video is yet to come - the actual "writing the draft" one includes a lot of me just sitting there typing, while Andrew gets up and leaves a few times. We're figuring we'll need to do a voice-over track on it...which means waiting until Andrew gets home tomorrow.
Other things I've done to procrastinate:
--posted to Facebook about my project with Andrew
--tweeted and surfed my timeline
--started planning my courses (i.e. assigned a different colour pen to each class, counted the weeks in the semester, then gave up)
--made some Blue Bottle coffee (if you don't live in the Bay Area, that reference is probably lost on you...and that's a shame. Best coffee in the Bay).
--pretended to do some dishes
--filled up my water bottle
--posted a question on Ask Metafilter (my other favourite time-killing website) to solicit the best humourous works to use in my Language of Humour class
--started reading an essay about writing essays in The Essay Connection (Bloom)
--responded to the following Tweet:
#ISTE12 and the importance of educator connections. via @tomwhitby #edchat #EVSCREV12 bit.ly/OhZ15F
— Brett Clark (@Mr_Brett_Clark) July 7, 2012
Okay. Back to work...
...after I check Twitter.
...after I check Twitter.
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