On Monday, We Had Lots of Fun... Sort Of.

It was Monday. The weekend had gone by without incident. I did very little school stuff over the weekend. I worked for a little while learning some new Graphic techniques in Fireworks, but otherwise, nothing.

I am liking this arrangement, where I don't have to work my butt off all weekend for school. It is nice.

Anyway, as I said, it is Monday. 45 minutes per class. You really can't get much done at all in that timeframe. Yuck.

For the most part, the introductory classes worked on Typing today. Other classes worked on getting stuff cleaned up, finishing off old assignments, relinking pages, cleaning up their sites, etc.

I tried to get the 8th Period class to insert "buttons" into their Flash movies today. They have been working on Flash introductions for their website. This means that the websites for the kids will have neat little movies at the start. Kind of fun, but the movies need little buttons in them so that the teacher can get into the websites without having to watch movies over and over and over again.

The button procedure takes about 7 steps, logically completed one after another. Yeah, silly me, trying to complete 7 logical steps with a roomful of 7th Graders. It didn't work very well. A couple of kids got through the procedure, most of the them couldn't. They just have a really hard time following instructions. Even when I walk them through one step at a time, it doesn't work very well.

I will try again on Wednesday.

Tomorrow, I start doing Graphic Art stuff with a bunch of the classes.