Plugging away

So I had a great chance to work on quite a bit of my course over our mini-holiday this week - sounds ridiculous I know at Great Wolf Lodge with the family working, but someone needs to stay with Fae for naps, so I signed up for that downtime, and of course they're all passed out by 8pm every night too.

Anyway, I've been working away and having some fun, and meeting some frustrations as well.  Trying not to dwell on the frustrations - not being able to upload a simple 297KB file to my instructor was one of them.  But I'm over it... mostly... hahah!  No seriously.  I'm starting to see the connection between things and where I was stalled at the beginning, things are falling in to place.  I do think I'm working pretty hard, but I'm trying to learn and get as much as I can out of this.  I still find myself unsure of things when I don't know, if it's because I don't know the Senior Universe, or if it's just because I don't know.  Conversely, have been reading 'Merrill's First Principles' with certainly the weirdest crazy look on my face as I couldn't figure out why he was talking about everything as if it was some new wow crazy idea that we're not doing as teachers - then came across the section that these principles are common knowledge and practice to elementary teachers.  And here I just thought it was teaching.  Hopefully that gives me something to talk about in my synopsis and reflection, because I've been stalling on that one for sure.  Not feeling wordy lately at all.  Give me the goods in short order, and I'll do the same.  But that doesn't seem to fly around here.

Speaking of not feeling wordy, I'm out.

Beginning the Course

So I finally have time to sit down and check out what I'll be up to in my Media Arts course, and one of the first things I notice is not only that I'll be developing a website (np!) but that it must have a blog.  ugh.  I hate blogs.  Blogging.  I hate the word blog - in fact, I think that's my biggest problem with the whole blogging empire.  The word - itself, BLAH-g.

And so, naturally, I dive head first in to this thing!  So, here begins my blog on the course.  I've blundered through the website a few times.  I can't find a due date on anything, so I'm just going to try and plug through everything in the order it appears - with the exception of course of the first thing, which is in fact the last thing, the website. 

So here I go, off to read the "Educational Potential of Adolescents in Media Arts".  I hope I'm doing this right.  I haven't taken a course in so long!  I'm going to have to print off everything and check it off as I go.  I feel so scattered lately and I definitely need a check-in system or it'll be August before I know it.