Week 3

This week's assignment was a little bit tougher than the previous ones. I really didn't like the bookmark and document manager at first, they both were giving me a really hard time. I think I've finally mastered it, though. Now, I can't figure out why it was so hard to begin with! Well, first off, our assingment was to make basically a resource page for a core topicon our UEN page. It needed to state the core objective and initiative we chose. I chose to do 4th grade science on the water cycle (I've always been so fascinated by it!) and that's Standard 1, Objective 2, Initiative b. Then we were to include two links for lesson plans, two links for interactive activities, two links for further exploration and two images. For extra credit we could link a video, too! Well for the links we were suppose to use the bookmark and document managers. For some reason I could not get my links to work! Still can't figure it. I had to clean the whole thing off and start over. After I did that I was able to get my bookmarks to work. So I started in on finding the perfect video. Well all the videos I wanted to use weren't .wmv files...darn it... so I went searching for others. I found a list on emedia that could be downloaded as .wmv files, so I picked one. Bill Nye the Science Guy! I was excited about that. So I clicked the download button. I searched for it on my computer for THREE hours!! Finally pulled my husband in just so he could tell me it didn't download an actually file, but a link to Window's Media Player. RRRRG. So we messed around with it a bit and finally figured out to right click on the download button and save it the "long way" : Save Target As, blah, blah, blah. So we finally get an actual file. I go to upload it to my "Document Manager", browsed for the file, named the file, wrote a description and clicked "UPLOAD". I waited and waited and waited.... and waited and waited and waited... watched the green arrow go around and around and around. After an hour of that I decided to try a different video, thinking Bill was corrupted or something. Found a Magic School Bus episode - and who doesn't like Magic School Bus???!! - so right clicked, save target as... ya ya ya... UPLOAD... and wait and wait and wait... wait and wait and wait... watched the green arrow go around and around and around. Clicked stop. This time it gives me an error message that my request could not be completed because I ran out of storage!!!! WHAT??! I have a whoppin' eight bookmarks - how much room can those take??? So, oh well, I say and went on a search for a smaller - MUCH smaller - video file. Found one (a full 15 seconds long). And it worked. And now I'm done.