Hallelujah!

After discovering the anti-spam security setting on blogger I decided to spend some time re-arranging the videos that I had alread shared to the blog. They come as being posted on the current day and time. For organizational purposes I would prefer the videos to be alphabetized and to be listed from A-Z. Of course blogs don't carry about the alphabet, they go by date (and newest to oldest). I spent some time researching but couldn't find a way to make the order go by anything else other than the date. So I devised a system where I put the title by date with each letter having it's own day.

A-31
B-30
C-29
D-28
etc

Then I could re-post the blog entries by time within each day so that my overlist was alphabetical. This was more difficult than it sounds because it the time had to go backwards--if I wanted an entry to appear before the current one I had to put the time later.

This took a chunk of time until my 24 hour wait was up for entering the next batch of videos could be transfered from youtube to the blog. After getting the next 50 over, I realized that I could still manually do the videos by using the embedding function from youtube. I had two windows open and would go back and forth between the blog site and youtube putting each video's specific embedding code into the blog post textbox and then having to type the security word before it would allow the post. That way I was able to manually override the 50 post limit.

This took a little more time and a few attempts on some of those security words but I was able to get all the videos in. Then I had to manually change the post date on the new posts (about 140). My goal was to keep pushing pushing pushing so that I could relax and have fun on my approaching birthday. With 3 minutes to spare (11:57 pm) I finished the date on my last blog video post! Hippee!!!! To add frosting on the cake I went in to my youtube videos and added all of the private videos(easily identified because I put a "P" infront of the title) and added them a special "Playlist" I set up in youtube so that I can have my family look at them and grant or not grant permission to move them from youtube private to youtube public. Any they determine can go on public can then be linked to my Egypt blog.

I was very happy to get this video work and blog to this point. It has been TONS more work then I ever realized it would be. But I think it is going to look organized and be very nice to have for both personal and professional use. As I've discussed before the blog can be used by other faculty if they'd like (art, cultural geography, music, religion, nursing, etc.)

I have also been typing up my journal entries and plan to put those on the site (with some direct links). After that I still have to design some quizzes and then the Egypt part of my work will be complete! But like I said, I feel very good to have this part of it DONE!