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I’m not exactly sure where I saw these first, but we just started our second semester at Lincoln Lutheran, and the assignment for all of my independent study video editing students was to watch all 12 of these.
Your assignment is not quite so long. Watch this one, then watch the rest of them if you have the time/inclination…
I have the best faculty in the world. Yesterday, the day after Steve Jobs passed away, this card was in my mailbox:
Matt Haden also posted a facebook photo.
It’s Friday night, Lauren is tired, so I get to finally post something. Weeks and weeks ago, three weeks before the end of the school year in fact, I gave my Website Design Class their final assignment. They were going to design the website for the Nebraska School Nutrition Association.
Our School Nutrition person was the vice-president of the Nebraska School Nutrition Association, and they had wanted a website for years and years. We broke the class up into a few different working groups and went to work. I think it turned out pretty nice:
As an added bonus, my principal came to observe the class when the students were meeting with their client to iron out some of the details of the website. It’s always good to have your principal watch when you’re not the focus of attention.
As an added added bonus, I have a lot of good pictures of food to look at when I’m hungry…
Yesterday was the last day of school for me (school never ends for Lauren). We are having surprisingly few teacher meetings this year and I’m nearly done with grading, so I should be free pretty soon.
Next week I’ll start spending my time making up important sounding things to tell Lauren that I’ve been doing while she’s been at work. it takes longer than you might think.
But that’s not what I wanted to say today. I wanted to show you this not altogether disappointing video that some of my students made in Video Editing Class. It’s a rip-off of homage to a more famous video, but one that I hadn’t seen before…
So, there was this wasp in my classroom two days ago. I think it snuck in through the air conditioner (that’s how I’d sneak in). I didn’t think much about it. I figured it would fly around awhile then leave.
Well yesterday it (or a very similar looking wasp) was still there. I saw it land on my monitor and I said, “Hello, wasp.” A few minutes later I leaned back in my chair, but the wasp was thinking the same thing. Well, before I could sting it, it stang me.
There were students in the room, so I didn’t say the first 12 things that popped into my mind. Instead, I said, “Did you guys see that wasp that was flying around in here?” After a few students had affirmed the existence of the wasp I followed up with, “Well it just stung me, and it really hurts. I mean ouch, wow. So if I pass out, someone write a pass for someone to go to the office to tell someone.”
Some of you might remember that I was working on a new website for Lincoln Lutheran for, um, about the last three years. If you could spare 30 seconds (surely you’re used to wasting that much time here anyway), I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind taking a quick test/survey/something about the new website: click here (Really. 30 seconds, tops)
After you’re done you can see what everyone else said. But no fair peeking first.