Swimming Straight

My swimming has really improved this year, although you might not be able to tell from my race splits. I've been getting lessons from Lincoln Djang, and every session with him has been great. I'm constantly amazed that each time we meet he can quickly spot some way to improve my stroke, and then has a drill that allows me to correct the flaw and at the same time get a kinesthetic feel for the correction so I can work on it.

But even though my pool times have dropped dramatically, I've had mixed results in the open water. Apparently I don't swim very straight, I curve pretty dramatically to the right, and if I don't sight every 5 strokes I'll quickly be way off course. I can't quite figure out why this happens, but this photo from a recent race may be a clue ...

Web 2.0 Class Videos

Here are some of the student produced videos from the Web 2.0 Track!


Intro to Education 2.0




Web 2.0 Overview and The Internet Cloud By Bruce Wolcott




Blogging (and Delicious) By Debi Griggs

Camtasia Help

If you want help with almost any aspect of Camtasia, they have a great library of movie tutorials.

Windows Movie Maker Help

Designing and editing movies is a pretty complicated process. There are many tutorials to help you, but one of my best suggestions is to do your homework and watch as many videos and movies as you can ... but with an eye towards creating your own.

Rather than listing a bunch of links here, I'm providing a link to my Delicious page. Go there and click on the video tag or windowsMovieMaker.

Audacity Help Links

Here are some helpful links for learning and using Audacity:

Audacity Help
Audacity Wiki
Audacity Guide

I also have a bunch of links at my Delicious page.

Here's a photo album from our class on Thursday. The photo album was created on the Adobe Express site and then embedded in this blog. This class has been great so far, the students are all interesting and fun. I've learned a bunch from them, and I hope they have learned as much from me.

lunch

i licked all of the desserts