lame blogs

Since I had some free time in class after I uploaded my movie, I thought I would get caught up on reading other people's blogs. I have to say, most of them were totally lame. Several people haven't posted anything and others just a sentence or two. There were a couple where people did real posts. I enjoyed those ... it was interesting to hear other peoples perspectives about what we were doing in class. I even commented on a couple - but not all blogs allowed comments. A couple people uploaded graphics - those were nice.

End of the semester

What I have learned recently is that you might get older but you don't really change. It's the end of the semester and I am frantically trying to get everything done...just like when I was first an undergrad lo so many moons ago. I did learn today how to find files on my lap top. That is going to be a big help. It's amazing how one little piece of information can make such a big difference in your regular use of the computer.

Word

In the beginning was Word...Well actually in the beginning was screenwriter which was the word processing software I first learned on the Apple II. Man have times changed! I enjoyed the Word lecture...I learned several important things...The most significant was how to make the table lines reappear as that is something that irks me to no end...And how to make the columns isolated to one section of the paper. Very important tools. I didn't learn why the border always disappears off the bottom of the page...But then I didn't ask.

Movie Creation

imovie is fun. I particularly like it's possibilities for Christmas and birthday presents. Being an underpaid academic, I am always on the look out for low cost yet extremely cool, personal and appropriate gifts I can give to my family and friends. imovie offers great possibilities for that. And since these will not be posted on the internet, I can use illegal music to make it even more special and appropriate In fact, my movie for this class is a gift for my best friend. I am making a movie of photos from our various roadtrips of the last few years and putting them to a Jimmy Buffett song (because we go to the keys a lot!) Although we have gone to the mountains quite a bit also...Maybe I should be doing it to Country Roads? :)