Yesterday I visited Mt Sunday in New Zealand, which was the set for Edoras in the film trilogy “The Lord of the Rings.” This is one video in a series I took yesterday and uploaded to Flickr. Read more about this on my main blog post “Erewhon, Mt Sunday (Edoras) and the Rangitata Valley.” More [...]
Entries from February 2009
Videos of the Rangitata Valley and Mt Sunday
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments
NZ Travel Update: LAX
February 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
I recorded another short archived webcast via Qik this evening in the LAX airport enroute to the 2009 Learning at School conference in Rotorua, New Zealand. I posted my first “in airport” video update over on my main blog, but since updates like this one may bore readers to that blog looking for educational technology [...]
Happy Birthday Trudy!
February 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Happy Birthday to you, Trudy, from Portland, Oregon! My workshop class today wanted to sing a special birthday greeting for you! Technorati Tags: qik, video, birthday, sing, itsc09, itsc, itsc2009
Character Map of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
February 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Sarah brainstormed the following character map for her biography book report on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis this evening with her mother. I put her concept map into Webspiration tonight and printed it for her to turn in Monday in class. The embeddable version of this Webspiration map uses the “iFrame” tag. Here is a Skitch screenshot [...]
Tags: sister · socialstudies
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
February 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments
In third grade you have to do a few different book reports and this is my second book report. It is on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and here is her timeline, but there will be another one on her character traits!
Tags: school · sister · socialstudies
39 Clues
February 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I just finest the book the 39 Clues, The Maze of Bones. There are ten books in this whole series and the cool thing is that all of them are written by all different authors so you get a feel for a different witting styles. The first book is written by Rick Riordan who wrote the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. If you have [...]
Tags: books · brother · writing
Arrow of Light Ceremony
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Tonight Alexander bridged up from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts, and received the highest award in Cub Scouting: The Arrow of Light. I used the free iTalk application on my iPhone to record most of the ceremony, and later used Audacity to amplify the recording so it is much louder. This is the recorded, edited [...]
