Sep 01 2008
the guilt of unfinished projects
I’ve been trying to clear out the hard drive on my laptop. I cleared it back in May but it seems to have filled up again. Lots of video podcasts have been transferred over to the science folder on the school server, photos transferred on to a portable hard drive, hundreds of old email attachments have been binned and I have been ruthless in reviewing my iTunes subscriptions.
Then I found something half an hour ago. It’s a folder that takes up a whopping 15GB on my mac. Inside, there is an iMove file for a video I started with a S2 science class back in April. I was half way through the editing process when we changed timetable and I must have forgotten to finish the editing job for them after they moved on into S3. It was a great plan to have non-stop practical work, building light-proof plant propagators, assembling different coloured light sources (see the blue light source below) and all to see if plants responded differently to red, yellow and blue light. I liked it because it allowed me to combine biology and physics – we don’t get to do that very often!
What should I do? Finish the editing or just leave it on a hard drive somewhere? It’s going to be hard to find the enthusiasm when the pupils involved are no longer in my classroom.
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