Storm Clouds on the Horizon

It was stormy today in Merced.

But no rain fell upon the pavement.

The clouds were full of precipitation. You can experience that with my latest addition to the flickr stream. Its a B&W photo of the sky at 11:00. At 11:30 a funnel cloud was spotted outside of Merced and the photo sent to the local TV station.

Mostly it was cold. There has been some panic IEPs done as the Freshmen are starting to come up in masses and are in need of goals and direction toward next year. Next year both schools are headed for a BTI model of push in just for the Freshmen.

The students in the classes were anxious to see the DVD that I made of their school's speech kids. As each one took their turn upon the screen they inevidably tried to hide their faces from it and tried to my edit out their portion. They were quick to want to see the others however. There is a severe difference between the schools and the capabilty of the students between them. It is particularly evident in the video clips.

The new computer renders up the footage much faster than the old one. This may be due to a feature in the new IMovie that uses support time to redender.. so it sort of pre-renders on the fly as you put new clips in. Who would ever think that a handheld camera could take the place of a movie camera with film and other little electric motors. The only motor in this digital camera is the the telephoto lens.

Pretty amazing stuff

Pat