I must be INSANE!

It has been 18 days since I posted on here last. In short: I have been WORKING my tail off and, to be honest, I have considered QUITTING this whole project..... I went through a week where I thought, seriously, every day, I would just QUIT.

Here were the two main problems:

(1) Programming/software problems: (a) I came to a point where I was unable to video record my screen and get it into Adobe Premiere correctly. The format on my Interwrite Pad didn't exactly work directly... I had to feed it through Windows Moviemaker to get it into a .wmv format to THEN feed into Premiere.... but... suddenly... THAT format just STOPPED working... Adobe Premiere wouldn't take it..... also (b) I had my sister try to "log on" to my video with the password and, for some reason, THAT did NOT work for her..... (c) and, the video player I had created using Adobe Flash Professional.... had hic-ups.... Basically: it would often, and randomly, just STOP being able to play videos..... My first video has 7 mini-videos.... and the player would get to the 3rd or 4th one and then just STOP working.... And the "student" would have to RELOAD and TRY AGAIN from the beginning.. and, then, it often would happen AGAIN the next time! <--- very frustrating.

(2) TIME TO BUILD IT ALL: Even IF/WHEN I might happen to SOLVE these problems... it was going to take me a WHOLE LOT OF TIME to make EACH of these video lessons correctly. A RIDICULOUS amount of time..... My first video (about 22 minutes long) took something like 40 hours to complete, from script-writing, to sound recording/editing, video recording, and editing the whole thing together and getting it into the Flash video player .swf file..... (took more than 40 hrs to to the programming, but that was not all just the fist video).... So.... That ended up being about TWO HOURS of production time per 1 MINUTE of video lecture produced. (And that doesn't count the time required to create the NOTES in MS Word and LESSON DESIGN itself.... Just the details for the video.... just translating what I ALREADY HAVE in my classroom into a video format.)

Well.... Let's just say that I am NOT quitting.... Not yet....

More to come in the weeks to come (I think).... but the short version is that (a) I solved all of those problems, except the last one, but at least I got the FREQUENCY of the last problem to occur much less often.... and (b) I completed a complete SECOND video file (Lecture 3.2) and it took me "only" three work days, from beginning to end.... It was a 25 minute video, with CFK questions, and took me about 30 hours to do the entire thing. I am getting better at it all. (Plus I am trying out yet another piece of software which is making things a bit easier for me... more on that later

TIME SPENT: I really don't know...... I will put down something MUCH less than I am sure I spent... 50 hours.