I’ve been doing a short digital photography unit in one of my classes and today we were working on editing. This led to the following conversation:
Student: Mr. Klein, my red eye isn’t working.
Me: Well, you’ve already made it black and white, so I don’t think the red eye is going to work.
Student: Yeah, but shouldn’t it be making his eyes red?
One of the projects I’m working on this year is developing a wiki page for the elementary school. I’m using it more like a static webpage than a collaborative wiki, but it suits my purpose fairly well. It’s definitely a work in progress, but my goal is to have the links that each class needs to use in the lab, as well as in class, readily available to them. I like that with the wiki I can easily do seasonal pages (like Easter Fun) then hide them until next year. I’ve just added both Teacher Resource and Homework Helpers pages that I’m hoping will be helpful to everyone. Feel free to check it out, and if you have any sites that you think would be helpful, definitely let me know.
The latest installment of my videography commercial project is here. My students were asked to find a commercial on Youtube and use it as a template for their own commercial.
Below is the original commercial followed by the student’s version:
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If you missed the first project of this type that I posted, check it out here:
For more videography fun, check out our blip.tv channel.
Track season began today and I’ve gotten a lot of help recruiting team members from my favorite Korean runner. She’s also my only Korean runner, but that’s besides the point…
“Join the track!” she says to everyone she comes in contact with. I’m looking forward to having a lot of fun this season, and she is determined to make sure there is a team to enjoy.
Please keep the track team in your prayers this spring as we start getting into shape and preparing for track meets.
Each year the entire elementary school goes ice skating one day a week for about a month as part of their PE curriculum. It really is such a fun time. There are a lot of pictures of this here: Ice Skating Photos
This year I captured a few videos for you to enjoy.
Diana demonstrates skating grace:
Oenjdipa demonstrates skating rhythm (off the ice!):
and Miss Stevens, well Miss Stevens demonstrates some serious dancing skills: