Update

Whoops, a few days late on the entry. Things have been busy.

I've been to a few schools and I've started to inventory their moviemaking tools.

I've also done some planning for my introductory movie but I haven't gotten time to do any filming with kids. I can hopefully start this this week or next.

On a very positive note, I found out that I have access to some powerful moviemaking tools. My tech director and I were trying to convert a movie from quicktime to WMV and called ITS. They let us know that our CTE department had purchased 500 licesnses to Adobe CS4 creative suite. This is a huge package including premiere pro movie editing software and aftereffects post production software. Best yet, we have 50 teacher at-home licenses. I've already installed it and started teaching myself to use it. I am more familiar with the elements version which is simpler, so it's a bit of a stretch, but it is working out well.

Finally, I am beginning to plan a three-day movie making workshop for March with elementary teachers. More on that next time.