Patience

I don't feel like I'm accomplishing huge tasks at the moment, but I have been working on some small things to help prepare for the video tutorials I'll be creating.

1.  I talked to my site supervisor about which slides she liked best and we've decided on the following images:

Title Slide

Ending Slide

My site supervisor really likes the pop of the orange title, but we both agreed that too much text in orange would be hard to read.  I tweaked a few other things and feel confident that these slides will be cohesive with the new site when it is live.


2. My site supervisor added me to the WAS listserv so that I can directly communicate with WAS users.  I've sent out one email simply thanking people for answering my questionnaire and letting them know what videos they can look forward to seeing in the next few months.  Maybe when some of the videos are actually created and accessible on the site, I can email again to let users know they are available.

3. I attempted to write an outline for my first video.  As previously mentioned, I still don't have access to the new site so this is proving to be a bit difficult.  Watching the old tutorial that I am replacing mostly left me with questions about how the new site will look instead of giving me a clear idea of how to set up the new video.  I have broken it down into a few categories that I plan to go over with my site supervisor, but when it comes to specifics, I may need to wait until I have access to the new site.  Hopefully I'll get some good news when we meet this Friday in regards to the release date.  She was hoping for early March so keep your fingers crossed!

At this point, I'm starting to fall behind on my hours a bit.  I'm not too worried since I know that the actual video creation is going to take the bulk of my time and therefore I will definitely be putting in more than the 9 hours per week after the site goes live.  It's more of a guilt thing at this point.  I started the semester off thinking that I would put in 9-10 hours per week and it is just not turning out so consistent.  I need to remind myself that it's okay to adjust the schedule I created and budget for 10-15 hours per week after the site goes live to make up for some of the shorter weeks I'm experiencing now.  Since I'm aware of the longer hours I will be putting in later, I can budget for them now by working ahead in my other class and planning ahead at school.  Of course, this will all get a lot more stressful if the site doesn't go live in the next week or two, but I'm trying not to worry about that yet...eek!