Number 19

Please indulge cute video made with Mac OS X by one Dennis Liu

Well, pushing toward the end of the school year. Senioritis setting in among some 8th graders; no news there. Splitting the last of our budget in the library on books and digital things. Bought two camcorders of the very cheapest mini dv format, one at $150 one at $200. We like these machines.
Friday Show at 16 in which we are trying to focus on community around school namely Langley. So far we have had segments on Joe's Island Music and the early days at The Clyde. One constant problem seems to be the inadvertent overwriting of one bit of video tape by another bit; this is something that hopefully will be alleviated by a new storage format like flash in the cameras we buy next. Distribution on shows to classroom is a bit primitive and spotty because it is done with physical media (DVD's) and on foot (mine).
Looking to get Moodling soon and put materials for next year's Publications and other classes online. Difficulties with account setup at ESD right now.
Comic Life activities in Computer 6 going well. We will be moving on to Garageband and iMovie for the bulk of the rest of the quarter. Should try to incorporate Comic Life page exports into iMovie. Kids are also spontaneously learning Pencil (animation program) in free time. Watching a few TED presentations and 2001 A Space Odyssey as well.
Switching to new software for library management which will be all web based and is to be hosted remotely at ESD. First meeting with company reps next Tuesday switch over in June and then formal two day training.
Planning next year to continue to push non-fiction books of all topics into students hands by enlisting subject area teachers and refreshing non-fiction collection.
Planning for The Spring '08 Coast Campaign June 7-11 is finalized; I will be marching from the North with the Second Division under Major General Scoles, Bergquist's and his Army of the South will deploy at Rialta with Colonel Sewell and Colonel Diers and move North to a rendezvous at Chilean Memorial on the morning of the 10th of June. Victory will be ours!