It’s not like I’ve been sitting idle all evening. I have, for what it’s worth,
come very very close to giving this PC a good neoLuddite thrashing. I
just don’t have the right equipment to make movies sing. Went from a flubbed
synch (slides didn’t match cues in the song) to a Sony app which could give
me AVI format but not MPEG2 (with no good explanation…the documentation is…how
bad must it be before we no longer call it documentation?). Used yet another
app to convert the AVI to MPEG 2, and a fair amount of unwelcome cropping came
along with the switch–going from 720×480 to 480×480. Needed it in MPEG2 for
the gate to VHS for viewing in the classroom. So what is it? A digi-video of
D.’s lesson plan where second graders draw theme-oriented pictures (unwittingly,
they work from phrases in the lyrics) to concoct a frame by frame “music video.”
Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” and well-timed in light of all the
world news. Please don’t be deterred by the slow download; it’s the best second-grade
picture show we could muster.

And now back to grading papers.

^The vid’s autoload was gunking up my
bandwidth, so I redeposited it at the back of the server.  Click the TV if
you’d like to check it out.^