Monday, October 27, 2008

Project done!

Well ladies and Gentlemen my video is complete!!!! It is up and running and you can check it out at http://eimakeover.shycast.com/contestant/582/ There are only about fifty other highschools competing feel free to check out how we measure up. Please take the time to log in and register an email account. I know it is signing a bit of your soul away but what is one more piece of spam in comparison to the billions flying around the ethernet currently. We put a lot of time and effort into and I hope you folks will support our effort.

I have to admit that while I am happy that the submission went through I have to admit this is one of the first major projects I have stuck through until completion. I am notorious for starting things and then just letting them wither away. There was a small amount of elation that coursed through me as I finally got it up and now it is a little odd to ask people I haven't talked to in a while to come and support me, however the nice part is that over this past weekend I was able to get a couple of friendships that had been lying dormant to become reconnected and I am definitly looking forward to coming home over winter break and keeping those connections going.

Musically, if I ever hear Nickelback's "Rockstar" song again it will be too soon. Generally i can do the one song on repeat ad nauseum, however the amount of stress that get associated with song is something i would like to distance myself from. Leaving the world of pop, I have finally had time to delve into some music my brother hooked me up with last christmas and due to my disorganization of moving place to place I have finally gotten around to it. Right now Charles Mingus " My Jelly Roll Soul" is just rubbing me the right way. I am just unwinding and relaxing, I have a notch in my belt of project completions and I hope to double it by finishing the water project next saturday. I tell you ladies and gentlemen if I can ride this wave I will be ecstatic come november.

My two other goals are to purchase a Yamaha PSR-900 to start an after school club, and to by 20 basketballs, one for each of the guys who are eligible for basketball this year. I want to buy sharpees too so they can design their ball and make it their own and practice with it all the time. Something they can envision going through the air and landing in the hoop. M reasons for this are twofold, One most of my students have never owned their own basketball, and two there are not enough basketballs in the school for each memeber of my team to have one. Two people can not dribble with the same ball at the same time. I think Newton has a law about that...

Overall folks life's looking on the up and up. Things were kind of getting away from me for a while but I feel I got the horses back under the reign. Please help my kids out by checking out our music video again. Here's the link http://eimakeover.shycast.com/contestant/582/

Til next time ladies and gentlemen...

Monday, October 20, 2008

Projects abound!!!!

Alright Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been neglectful true, but I am coming out of slump, this is awesome I am about 80% done with water project creating my aformention system that will purify and cleanse all of my water no matter what the source or pollutants out here. And I would be 100% but I adopted another project one that I just kind fo fell onto while searching for funding for a smart board for my classroom. It is to enter a contest and make a music video and you get the change to win a $25,000 Classroom Technology makeover. Well this thing looks pretty sweet and only 200 some people entered it last year. Well right now there are only 6 highschools involved and their videos are pretty shoddy. So I have worked with my students and we have come up with some lyrics to parody Nickelback's Rockstar song and we are going to be putting it to video over the next three days as the video is due to be uploaded on friday. I swear to post this as soon as it is completed, I took one of my classes, my Consumer Life Skills class and just told it for the next two weeks this is all we are working on. We got pretty pumped about it and we are going to see what develops. I am pretty hopeful that we have a good chance, the website to check out is eimakeover.com . Hang in there with me for a little long folks and I will have something phenomenal to show you... on that note, til next time.