digital photography class

These past few weeks I’ve been teaching summer classes where I work. It’s been really fun — each class was a week long, from 9-12. Our final week, I taught Intro to Digital Photography, meant to be an introductory class for Photoshop. Here is the work my kids have been learning, ranging from 4th grade to 8th grade. Go to “Students Learn Photoshop” under “News”: Countryside School. Direct Link here.

One million giraffes

There’s this guy trying to get one million hand-drawn pictures of giraffes by the year 2011. Who knows if he’ll make it; the Internet is a strange and large place. I just submitted mine, are you going to submit yours?

One million giraffes

house-hunting

We’ve been house-hunting for a couple weeks but haven’t found anything yet. There are a lot of old and strange houses in Urbana. Maybe we’ll get a condo. I’m kind of excited to buy — no more quarters for laundry!

I think the first week of summer school went well. I taught astronomy and gave kids their first starparty last night. They seemed just as thrilled and awed as we were when we were in high school at our first starparty — told them about planets, circumpolar constellations, the ecliptic, zodiac constellations, and Greek mythology. Next week I’ll be teaching another passion — Math and Art!

Kevin and I went sailing today. It was really nice out, though a bit gusty (in sailing, you want steady winds). At least we didn’t capsize. There were also a bunch of annoying motorboats out, who need to die.