When I started working with PowToon, I thought to myself “There is no way that this is going to happen”. I have never been a creative person and I knew right off the bat that this project required a lot of creativity. After two days of just staring at my computer screen, I decided to jump into the deep end. I know that I could have and probably should have watched at least one of the tutorials, but I wanted to be able to do this my own way. During my first hour experimenting with the site, I got impatient and angry, and then PowToon decided it was angry too and quit on me. After going through seven different templates, I finally found the one that worked for me. It took me a while to drag and drop the characters into the shot and took almost two hours to figure out how to set up the audio format. It took a while, but I finally figured out PowToon.
One of my biggest flaws is the fact that I get discouraged very quickly. As soon as I heard the PowToon assignment I was like “Nope, not me!”. I have noticed this in a lot of my other classes as well. In EDHE, our instructor told us that we were going to have to do a presentation in front of the class and I could not for the life of me imagine myself doing such. After days of procrastination I finally made myself dive into the project only to find how simple it really was. With PowToon, I didn’t even try for a few days because I was so discouraged but once I started actually working I realized that it wasn’t as awful as I was making myself think.