Each year the Black Knight Marching Band names the Most Promising Young Marcher. KELSEY GOT THE AWARD!!!
Please wish the BKMB the best as they compete in the OMEA State Marching Band Finals on Friday. It is the first ever for the school.
Every year, on the day after Trick or Treat, the local school has Knight’s Fest. The mascot of the school is the Black Knight and the design and layout of the elementary building is that of a medieval castle. Knight’s Fest gives each student a chance to dress up in some sort of medieval costume (we see a lot of knights and princesses on Trick or Treat night) and participate in a parade, concert and Knightly games. Of course the elementary principle is the king and the school secretary is the queen. Often they ride in a horse drawn carriage during the parade.
Every day the elementary, middle school and high school have video announcements. With the addition of a TriCaster this year, KnightVision (catchy name) has become an impressive daily broadcast on UStream.
They were onsite during Knight’s Fest and happen to interview Maria (it’s about 13 minutes in). Notice the text over the lower third in the video. The whole operation is produced by the students. They operate the cameras, mix the video in real time adding Creative Commons music and pipe it out to UStream. There must be a long line to get into the class, because they certainly look like they enjoy what they are doing.
The video class also broadcasts Van Buren sporting events. Our football games this year have had three cameras mixed down live with scores and other overlays. Hopefully instant replay review is not in the near future for high school sports.
This animation was inspired by Glen Millar at the PowerPoint Live 2009 Conference. The local file works perfectly. At SlideBoom, the sweeping hand is shifted down a little and goes slightly outside the circle at the bottom. Must be something with the way they process the files.
Nothing but PowerPoint here. A circle, an arrow and a series of “rotate” animations.
I’m trying a new editor for my blog. This is Windows Live Writer, a free component of Vista and Windows 7. Using this program, I can create new blog posts from a stand-alone application and then publish the post when I am finished.
The editor looks great, and because it is not running on my old, tired, slow server, it is quick.
This is a full test, with an image and the whole nine yards. I have had problems with the latest version of the WordPress editor. When I right-align an image, it goofs everything up. I have to go into HTML mode and fix that tags so that the image is actually right-aligned. I’m not going to do that with the above image. If it looks funny, it’s because this editor couldn’t do any better than the built in one.
This is cool. I have added the Flickr Image plugin. So now I can search all of Flickr or just my photos on Flickr and insert images directly into my blog posts. Maybe there is a WordPress plugin for this? I will have to look. SO far, the Writer plugin works great.
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Update: The image alignment worked perfectly. I am also editing my post from Live Writer. This is cool.
