Week 5 Web Conference Reflection

Tonight's web conference was very helpful in clearing up things for me this week. I am so busy that it is hard to make these meetings but every time I attend or listen later I am so much more confident in my understanding of my expectations.  When I start to get confused or frustrated, I know to go to the latest web conference.  I hate to say it but I kind of wish there was more requirements for me to attend them in the other classes.  My groups is pretty much done with our video I believe, looking at the requirements for the rest of this course, I am getting excited because I feel like I am almost finished with the work already.  I had kind of been assuming this week would be a stressful week trying to get everything finished with the course ending on Friday instead of Sunday as I usually do all my work on the weekends.  Fortunate for me, my group meshed great and our project went extremely smoothly so I am in good spirits about this course right now.  I wish they would have a web conference JUST about what we are to have completed for the Internship Course.  I always have been confused and remain confused, when I read the emails and letters about the requirements it makes some sense but it is overwhelming and harder to keep my fingers wrapped around the concept than it would be to see/hear in person. I guess it is all about to become extremely clear either way!

Sharing Files Online while Creating a Movie!

This week's project was awesome.  Last week was mostly planning and using our group google document to collaborate on the project.  This week we actually got to dig in and start creating.  At first I was confused and a little anxious about how my partner would record the video shots from many miles away and get the files to me.  I was very excited to get learn dropbox.com is the solution! I loved that it was free and thought it was so cool that it was a "cloud" and I could access it from any computer and even my iPhone! I did have some issues getting my partners video files though, I'm still not sure if it was a user error of mine or my computer but I was very happy when I got it working and started editing the video. I thought it would be so hard to record the narration and then upload it to the video editing software but surprisingly it made the project easier to edit! The movie was so easy to make, and fun to edit.  I am amazed at how easy collaborating onlnie with partners across the state was to create our movie.  I actually found it easier than meeting and working in person because I could work on it on my own schedule mostly.