Karlene Young Wk 4 Publishing Project Frustrations

I have been particularly frustrated trying to get ready for the Wimba session this Saturday evening. We are supposed to look at our fellow classmates’ presentations, but so many were not done, it was almost impossible to get it accomplished. I am so impressed with some of my classmates! Erin Roe’s is good enough to be published right now. She is amazing and has done an awesome job on her AR. I think Fullsail needs to hire her to teach the music class! (Nothing against Repp.) I think she needs to present at a conference with her project. Hers was 39 pages long, and I emailed her the question, “What about the 2000 words?” I had a pretty good paper when I realized it was 3000 words, so I started chopping. I feel like mine is a little too jumpy and scattered now as an article. I loved how Erin’s was so thorough. So I am guessing that we need to have several differing sizes to choose from, but I should have kept the original 3000-word doc. I feel like I am not done with this assignment. I’ll comment after the Wimba session as well.

After

Well, last night gave me a royal migraine, and then I got the flu to top it off. Six out of eight of us in my household came down with it since Thursday. I’m glad I was pretty much done with my assignments! I loved the presentation part, and would have loved to sit in on all of them. But-enough torture! My classmates are totally amazing and I am very impressed with the majority of the AR projects. I hope we can all be published.

Karlene Young Wk 3 – Publishing/Leadership project part 2 of 3 - Response to Laura Rebecca’s Post

Laura’s Post:
Week 3: this week's assignment--Leadership Project
This week (and last week) I have been focusing most of my mental energy to the final Leadership Project. I decided to go with the PowerPoint option, only because I am a visual person in terms of my learning style and my communication strengths, and conveying information in a visual medium has always been more comfortable for me. However, I am struggling with getting all of the necessary information on just a handful of slides (I recall the logistics of this were discussed in the Wimba, and I get it, but...) because, from an aesthetic perspective, I find a hard time getting all the information that I feel is valuable and relevant on five or six slides without clutter or just visual chaos.
To illustrate my conundrum: so far, I have my project down to a mere 19 slides (really, 17 if you remove my title slide and my closing slide) and I don't know what to cut next. When I teach my Film classes, I always tell my students to film as much as they can, because they'll never know what they may need in the editing room; on the other hand, the hardest part of post-production is not what to include, but what to edit out. I find myself in that very same situation. I wonder if some of it is emotional, this inability to "let go" of that which I have consumed myself with over the last ten months. Hopefully, in the next few days (as I don't have the luxury of time) I will be in a place where I can let some of the slides go, and aspire to succinctness rather than verbosity.

My response:
Laura-I feel your pain! I also went to take a look at your presentation so far. It actually inspired me! You have a good start, but you are so strong in video, have you thought about putting the info-especially from the lit review-into a video instead? I think I’ll just write mine as a paper, even though I feel like the visual is much more appealing. I think the final video project we are to do should in some way be tied to this presentation project. AHH! I’m in a quandary also.
Karlene