Easy pick for a pic today. i was going to look for an actual butterfly but I like the ‘wings’ on this tree on Quadra Island that I noticed while camping this summer.
Monday I managed to knock out a few video/screen casts and a couple more handouts. I turned off all the little butterflies of the other things that were hovering around last week and focused on one task. At the end of the day as I was hoping to have everything packed up to send away I realized I may not have saved a couple of files before (probably) overwriting them and ‘saving as’ something new. Turns out that waiting until morning to figure it out proved that I hadn’t lost anything after all. Word was behaving strangely – or maybe it’s me – but clicking on a document in the list of ‘recent’ documents would not open the document I clicked on but something else entirely. Disconcerting when you want to send files to someone.
I feel much better this week around timelines. Last week was super stressful, as I said, being distracted by all the things to do. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still behind, but I have a list, and have started on all of the things on it. It’s now a matter of pulling the links, resources, notes, images, etc. together and ticking off the list items. This week I decided to put most of my focus on finishing ONE THING and that was good for me. When I needed a break from that thing I did little bits of the other things so I could see some progress.
In and around creating resources I’ve been working on a tangible version of a to-do list. I tried out this Kanbanchi app for Google drive. I like it, but it’s a pay for service after 2 weeks so I didn’t really take off with it. I doubt I’d get the value out of it. I saw somewhere that there is a free educational version but have yet to find it. I switched back to a google doc. It’s a little more cut and past than drag and drop but I think it will work.
The OER challenge has started and some of the emails are going to spam for some of us, but not all emails, and not all participants. I’ve asked helpdesk if we can have Tannis whitelisted. I’m getting a lot out of this so far – mostly by going in and reading the challenge comments. Lots of great resources and ideas coming up already. I’m using a google doc to try and keep track of the NIC contributions so we can see where it goes.
I plan to start next week focusing on PD – planning, and registering for some conferences, followed by job description and concept mapping. I’m also thinking of something useful that I can ‘build’ and want to give more shape to that – progressing through the open ed challenge is giving me ideas.
All in all, this was a good week. I went over time by a few hours but feel like I accomplished some things. Nice way to head into a long weekend.