Amazing Day

Today started off like any normal day, but spiraled into something really amazing by the end of the school day. We had visitor day today, and I had two girls visiting first time block that I hope had fun making Flash animations, and hopefully they will take my class next year.

We have a sister school called Don Basco in San Jose, Costa Rica that I was lucky enough to visit about ten years ago, so I know that it is like our school, but with the addition of religion. Every so often they send some students to visit, and today was the day. My second block class was treated to a band concert in the Lincoln Mall. They played Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Looney Toons, a song by a Costa Rican composer, and a medley of Latin songs. That took up almost the whole time block.

Third time block I had four of the band members who take the Graphics program at Don Pablo visiting my class, one of whom works at a multimedia company and who knows Actionscript 3.0, which I have been trying and failing at learning for years. I asked him to teach us a little actionscript because I have about five students in that time block that want to become game designers, and I need some curriculum that will give them a start. Well, thank you Jose, for giving me just enough of the start of a game that students can take and play with, and a really good tutorial site. My two math aces really got into it and most of the class got a little of it. What a valuable class!

One of Dave's students came over yesterday because on the day I had students switching to different computers, I had bizarre problems with three of them. He solved all of those problems and came back today and brought a strip of internet plugs so now I don't have to unplug the server to use my computer when I demo.

Last, Mary and I went to the library, our inner sanctum. We passed some sunny windows on the way there, and smelled the Starbucks coffee, got into the library and checked out some new reads. One of the librarians found the book The Investment Answer, written by a dying Wall Street Broker.