August 2008
20 posts
WatchNSS08: Day 77/LBNSS: Day 1: Good-bye, Hello on Vimeo (via Vimeo).This marks the official end of my No Sock Summer 2008 and the official beginning of Life Between No Sock Summers. Kids are in the halls and teachers are ready for them. Thanks for a great summer.
WatchNSS08 Day 76: Coming to the end of the road on Vimeo (via Vimeo). A last look at the room before students come in and my musing of my lanyard and NCLB.
WatchNSS08 Day 75: Teachers Drink Coffee on Vimeo (via Vimeo). On our first day back for teacher meetings, Jeff (@indebatecoach), Kendra (she doesn’t like or get Twitter) and I head over to Starbucks for an afternoon pickup.
WatchNSS08 Day 74: Where to eat? on Vimeo (via Vimeo). Tonight, the family returned three places and so I jump into the Kia mini-van and head off to get the grub.
WatchNSS08 Day 73: Hello, Wall-e: The Movie Thing on Vimeo (via Vimeo). This film encapsulates the spirit of the SAMs (stop action movies) that the boys made this summer (and the feature of Day 68 video). Enjoy.
WatchNSS08 Day 72: First week of school report on Vimeo (via Vimeo). Evan (mostly) and Colin talk about their first week of school.
WatchNSS08 Day 71: Almost done with painting on Vimeo (via Vimeo). A little tour of the painting of the house.
WatchNSS08 Day 70: Back to the School on Vimeo (via Vimeo). Evan and Colin began school today for the 2008-09 year, so their summer is officially over
WatchNSS08 Day 69: Don’t let your boys talk with accents on Vimeo (via Vimeo). On the last day of summer for the boys, we’re swimming and Evan’s showing off his uncanny accent that may or may not be annoying.
WatchNSS08 Day 68: Let’s make a movie on Vimeo (via Vimeo). This is our last Monday together before the boys go to school in two days, so we made a movie (to be posted in a few days and then we’ll make some t-shirts).
WatchNSS08 Day 67: Let’s build a FreeBSD server on Vimeo (via Vimeo). Mostly because I can, but also to learn something new. It’ll house some stuff from around the house and some webpages.
WatchNSS08 Day 66: What the boys been watching this summer on Vimeo (via Vimeo). Last year it was all-things “Star Wars,” this year, all-things Pixar et al.
WatchNSS08 Day 65: I like to ride my bicycle on Vimeo (via Vimeo). Nothing adds to the parenting experience than teaching your son to ride a bicycle (how did we learn anyway?) It seems to be a passing trend, this “rite of passage” into the bigger world of childhood and Colin, the 7 year old, follows a bit in his brother’s pedals by not embracing the learning opportunity fully. And,...
WatchNSS08 Day 64: Painting and Trimming on Vimeo (via Vimeo). And when I trimmed back the bush/tree, someone in the house cried.
WatchNSS08 Day 63: Obama in front on Vimeo (via Vimeo). And we’re in back of him representing Elkhart County. Former Editor in chief of Student Publication and 2008 graduate Spencer Roach gets to question the Senator.
WatchNSS08 Day 62: Behind Obama all the way on Vimeo (via Vimeo). (I didn’t take video yesterday, so I’m splitting up the coverage of the Obama townhall meeting at CHS into two parts). The media was here in strong numbers as we got selected to be “representative of Elkhart County” and got to sit behind Barack during his talk. Stutzman (@InDebatecoach), Lori (@speechmom) and I...
WatchNSS08 Day 61: Waiting in line for Obama on Vimeo (via Vimeo). Sen. Barack Obama (he’s running for President) is stopping by Elkhart Wednesday for a townhall meeting at the school where I teach (Concord High School). The event is free, but we had to stand in line for tickets and right as we got to the door (2 1/2 hours later), we were informed that there were no more tickets....
WatchNSS 08 Day 60: Pets, inside and out on Vimeo (via Vimeo). A quick update on who are the pets in our house: Hammy, LukeTheCat, and SammyTheSquirrel.
WatchNSS08 Day 59: Lego Building Jubilee! on Vimeo (via Vimeo). The boys finally get a chance to build their Lego sets that were purchased in Chicago on vacation. Evan shows off the new Clone Wars Republic Attack Gunship and Colin plays with the camera a bit.
WatchNSS08 Day 58: Sliding through Vacation on Vimeo (via Vimeo). We spend the last three days (and two nights) at the Key Lime Cove Resort in Gurnee Mills, IL (about an hour north of Chicago) and it’s one of those themed-waterpark hotel things (think WolfLodge with a Miami Beach theme). On our last day, we’ll give you a taste of some of the things we have been doing here.