Late but not forgotten: Final Vision Project Contents - aka. the big F.A.I.L

I'm not sure this will even "count" for marks as I am over a week late with this assignment but I've been working on my final project for days and need a blog break!

image from: https://mmcgrat4.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/meme-project-revised/

I had this great idea for creating an action plan/rationale/proposal and then I got stuck.  What am I even trying to say?  What do I even know about this?  It was great to chat a bit about it with my instructor which guided me to start creating more of an introduction to me.  This way, the digital artifact could be used on my library blog or the school website, introduce families to me, but also lay out some of the things that I would like to do in the next year or so.  This shifted in my potential audience.  His other reminder was that things take time.  I can't do it all, immediately.  Ahh, yes.

I tend to avoid things that I don't know how to start.  Because really, how am I going to make this introduction?  My first thought was PowerPoint.  Haha.  I'm old.  It's what I know.  I thought I could use Jing to be able to talk throughout the presentation.  Now, thinking about this again, it's not a bad idea but I had this thought that I needed something fancier.  I downloaded Haiku Deck on my iPad and created a title page.  I signed up for projeqt but wasn't sure if that was quite the right medium for what I wanted to do.  After feeling overwhelmed by my lack of knowledge of these programs and my lack of direction in the project, I walked away.  I went and wrote report cards.  I dealt with MyEdBC instead of a new technology.
 
And then I came back.  I had my first training day at our resource centre with our current librarian and got a taste of what is currently happening there.  I had lunch with one of the tech guys and discussed ideas for the project's medium.  He introduced me to Zoom.us which is a video-conferencing tool like a Hangout or Blackboard but you can record yourself talking alone if you're wanting to make a video like that.  I thought that maybe I could use this as my tool but left it by the wayside as I didn't think I wanted to be on camera the whole time for this.  So where do I go for inspiration when I need ideas?  My LIBE477 colleagues!  I started checking out your final project blog posts (because you're all always on time and I'm always late!  Augh.).  I loved how PowToon looks for Jackie's Collaborative Inquiry project and was like, "Yes!  This is what I want to use!"


Thankfully, PowToon is pretty user-friendly.  It has some similarities to PowerPoint in the way that it's set up as slides which of course, I loved.  Haha.  But I got in there and came to a halt.  What was I even writing about?  Here were the notes that I was working from:

Yes - there is no paper in my house that does not have marker all over it.  Haha.  (#howyouknowyoulivewithkids) 

I went to Word and began a simple document.  YES!  This is always where I need to start.  I brainstormed, made an outline, THEN moved back over to PowToon.
 
Now, as I am just finishing up the project, I'm realizing that it could possibly be NEVER finished. Did anyone else find this?  Technically, I could keep going forever: editing, adding, etc.  At some point, I'm going to be so late on it that I will just have to turn it in as is.  And I think that day is today. We'll see where I'm at by 3pm today.