On Monday we are going to screen the segments and the class will critique each one. We have one more late night tomorrow–I’m not sure how many kids will stay. Today when I was walking around, I could see that the segments were coming together.

Some of my favorite quotes from the day:

• Do we really have to cut it down to 5 minutes–our segment could be 20 minutes, easy.
• Oh, I guess we should include our research.
• You have a great voice for the narration.
• Do I really sound like that?
• I hate my voice.
• Are you going to make us a DVD of this when we finish?
• You mean I get to take this home!
• Mr. Craddick’s interview has soooooo much information–he’s so smart.
• I can’t find any good music on these sites–do you have any more ideas?
• Can I just create my own music?

After receiving feedback from Christine Martell about the visual noisiness of my blog, I spent 9o minutes testing and re-testing every theme on the edublogs site. I wish I knew how to design a skin and I could submit it to edublogs.So I am trying this new one and will see if anyone mentions or notices or cares that it is new.

The picture of the eagle is one I took with my boys and Deb and her kids over Presidents Day Weekend. We went to Alton, IL where many eagles winter on the ice flows of the Mississippi River.

I finally figured it out! I knew you could split those tracks and that you could put something over the video track, but I couldn’t figure out how. After calls to my friends Bill and Brian , I finally figured it out all by myself. I feel quite proud .

Here is a screencast showing how to make a cutaway shot using overlays and also how to split audio and video tracks in order to edit them separately.