April 5th, 2008 Papa made this!

After ALOT more work than I thought, I’ve finally finished editing and posting all of the New Zealand study trip videos. To make them easy to see, I’ve embedded a video player below. Scroll through all the clips on the right, then click on any one you want to see. I don’t actually appear in many of them, but you do often hear my voice from behind the camera. At the very least you’ll get an idea of what my “work” was like during our trip. Alternatively, you can see the whole lot over at our Blip.tv webpage.

I’m very glad this project is nearly behind me. All I have left to do is create and burn the DVD, which I’ll give as a present to all the participants. Its taken a lot of effort to get this done, but I have really improved my video editing and blogging skills. I will put this new knowledge to good use in the coming school year with my video class students, some of which went on the NZ trip with me.

Clips I haven’t posted on this blog yet include the following: Punting on the Avon (a very relaxing ride on the main river in Christchurch), Akaroa day trip (where we went swimming with dolphins), Farm visit (to an actual working sheep farm), Farewell lunch (chronicling our last day of classes), Studying at King’s Education (some scenes of what academics were like for our students), Inside Christchurch Cathedral (a look inside this gorgeous city landmark), Christchurch parks (a photo slideshow), and Wine tour (where Mr. Kawahata & I explore the wineries of Waipara Valley). This last one is very cool! I really learned a lot about wines on this excursion. Anyhoo, if you check out some of these video clips, please leave me a comment! Aciu labai!

That’s me on the right, posing in front of the Christchurch Cathedral on the 1st full day of our study trip. My colleague Kuniaki Kawahata is on the far left.

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