So, I thought I had things together.  I felt like I was getting the hang of this being a student thing and going to college at my age.  I was sure that I had a handle on the whole thing.  Then today happened, the day that things fell apart.  I missed turning in an assignment on time today, and since you are not allowed to submit assignments late, I will be getting a zero.

I am beyond upset with myself and I know I shouldn’t be so hard on me.  Life is pretty tough as it is, so it doesn’t do to beat up on yourself, and yet I do it all the time.  I have no one to blame but myself.  Sure I could blame the grandkids for getting sick, needing me to take care of them and than making me, and hubby sick.  Hubby is much sicker than I am so I think I did ok on this point.

I could blame my crazy schedule or any number of things.  But the truth is I messed up, and I have to accept that and move on.  Not sit here and brood about it for a couple of days and make myself feel worse.   I thought I had my time management down but now I have to re-think that.  My creativity was not flowing like I like and it took me awhile to come up with a good idea.

I still have 29 months left in school and I hope to not miss another assignment in that time.  Even more importantly I hope that I learn how to manage my time more effectively so that I am able to keep up with everything.  I am not used to being nice to myself and I am horrible at getting bad grades.  This journey is turning out to be harder than I thought it would be, but there is no way I am going to quit.  So stick around cause it’s going to be a bumpy ride, but together we can make it to the end.

Please leave me any comments or suggestions you have to help make bearable below.

My first video for school

So I finally got my first video done.  I wasn’t sure what to do at first and I went through a few ideas.  I enjoyed the work this week of learning all the positions on a film crew.  Our video was to be of the position that we felt we would be good at.  Here it is the good, bad and ugly of my first video.  It’s not much but you gotta start somewhere.

Script Supervisor Please!

My First Month

 

Well I did it, I made it through my first month at Full Sail University.  Call the newspapers and tell the world that I have gone back to school and I am rocking it.

My first month was full of frustrations and revelations.  I felt so behind the times trying to figure out how to use my Mac.  I finally feel a little comfortable with it but still have a way to go.  My teacher was ok, I really don’t know because I didn’t actually ever have a conversation with her.  She seemed pretty nice as did my classmates.

One thing that really turned me inside out and had me questioning my sanity was our online classes called Wimba sessions.  The first one I attended I spent over 30 minutes just trying to actually get into the class.  I would follow the instructions and make it into the class.  Then suddenly I would lose the screen, then the sound and have to start over again.  I was not sure if it was me, the Mac or the platform.  At that moment I wanted to just sit in a corner and cry.  And I started to wonder just what I was doing.

Needless to say I made it through the that session and the rest of the class.  I also made pretty good grades so that is a plus too.

Things I didn’t like about the class:

1. The time for the Wimba classes.  Because they were held at 7:30pm it was hard to find a quiet spot in my busy house to attend.
2. That we couldn’t post our comment to the discussion board and comment on someone else’s post the same day.
3. That I didn’t really connect with anyone in the class and never got comments on my post.

Things I liked about the class:

1. That the class was about becoming literate with the technology  we would be using throughout our time at Full Sail University.
2. All the new we tools I discovered and am using on a daily basis.
3. The projects I got to create and turn in for a grade.  I never thought I would be able to bring all I learned together like I did.

All in all I think I am off to a good start.  I don’t want to bore you too much with school stuff so I am going to stop now.  One post a month about school it plenty.  Fell free to ask me questions or leave comments below.  In the meantime stay positive and learning.