A Wideo Rant

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For this week's blog post, my plan was to try http://goanimate.com and make a video. However, after far too much time and nearly pulling my hair out, I abandoned my half- done, terrible animation of the dialogue that I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I searched around for a online tool that was a bit easier for me, and found http://www.wideo.co where you can "make and share awesome videos online." I found Wideo to be far more user-friendly, or at least, a better starting point for newcomers to video creation.

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By the time I had settled on experimenting with Wideo for this blog post, needless to say, I was fairly sour. Truthfully, I've had a rough past week or so with many late night school events (a movie night, Trick-Or-Eat initiative, presentations), extra parent meetings, report cards, and all of my other usual teacher responsibilities. My partner has been on call the last three days so I've been struggling a bit alone, and people keep asking me about the wedding I keep stalling to plan (who has the time?!). I'm sure we're all feeling the squeeze, as November seems to always be a difficult month. So, I decided to create a video rant.

The idea of a rant is one that I got from a conversation that I had with a friend and colleague last week. She is also doing her Masters of Education, through the University of Calgary, and we were discussing our courses. When I told her about this blog, she suggested "the best English assignment that [she'd] ever had," which was writing a rant and then yelling it to the class. I loved the idea and have tried to do a rant using Wideo. I think it turned out as sort of a narrative-poetry-rant or something, but I tried to free-write.

Here is a link to my final product:

http://www.wideo.co/view/901861383683723810