An unproductive hour or two

So I tried to make the Camtasia How to Use MovieMaker thing but didn't do so well yet. It's too long. Maybe I need to chop it up into chapters. - Stage one, gathering notes and storyboarding. Stage two - finding and saving pictures and sounds. Stage three- laying out pictures in the storyboard frames. Stage four - Slide transitions and effects. Stage Five -Adding Sounds and Text in the Timeline. Stage Six - recording voice-over narrations. Stage seven - making minute adjustments in the timeline. Stage Eight - recording your movie. I don't want to make it too complicated and long, but I also don't want to lose the sense that this is a simple, step by step process to get from beginning to end. I'm afraid that a bunch of videos might seem scattered to kids who just want to see the house built from the basement to the roof.

Well, anyway, almost all of them had something on their storyboard, so that's good.

As far as data collection, I messed up again. Today I just wanted to have a lot of time for storyboard and didn't want to drag the review. Still, in periods 2 (CPS) and 7 (Quizshow Teams) it took way too long. Period 10 was scheduled for QuizShow solo which takes the longest of al b/c the new question banks need to be imported. So I executive decided just to do the grammar, and to do it with CPS alone. My concern was that kids already struggle with adjective/adverb phrases and to add all the time of quizshow solo without any guidance on the answers would be crazy. In fact, in 2nd hour the percent correct on the first couple questions was 29 and 33%, though eventually this moved up to the mid '80's after we discussed the why's and how's. Quizshow teams had similar lousy first questions, but a little discussion seemed to help iron out the problems. So in 10th I just wanted to do enough review problems that I wouldn't have to worry that they were going to bomb the test tomorrow.

Speaking of that test, I haven't made it yet. So I better get back to work. Plus I need to grade their Speak quizzes and studyguides from earlier this week. Mostly, though, I HAVE TO make that tutorial video. And I'm soooo sleeeeeepy...