{"id":573891659,"date":"2019-10-16T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891659"},"modified":"2019-10-18T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T18:14:17","slug":"it-only-starts-with-halloween-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/it-only-starts-with-halloween-puns\/","title":{"rendered":"It only starts with Halloween puns"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t order spooky soup or vampire vegetables or poltergeist pasta, but there were ghosts above my lunch today. <\/p>\n

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I did have a scary sandwich, though.<\/p>\n

And we once again had the now age-old conversation about teaching tech versus teaching principles.
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\n“You do not need,” I said, “a $20,000 camera to teach the principles of videography. Some of these I can teach with just this piece of paper.”
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Look! Composition! <\/p>\n

The point being not that paper replaces a camera — though if you had some good stock I suppose you could create your own camera obscura — but that you can do a lot with with a more basic, straightforward, efficient camera. Especially when you’re trying to teach the basics. <\/p>\n

It’s easy to get distracted by the shiny new toy, but to teach tools in a perpetually (and rapidly) evolving industry is to shortchange your students. Mostly, I was just pleased with myself. That paper-camera composition joke was on the short list for the day’s Best Point List. <\/p>\n

Went for a run<\/strong> this evening. Just a quick, slow little 5K around the neighborhood. It was fun, except for the parts where I still have to do intervals. I’m almost done with those, I think, thankfully. I’m 17 miles into my run recovery. Still wrapping my foot. Still feeling pretty decent, except for the boring walking part. But I’m not up to running full speed — which isn’t fast, mind you — but I can blur a camera phone:<\/p>\n

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We’re starting to get a bit of secondary color in the neighborhood, though. The pecan trees are shedding their nuts. There was, briefly, a tailwind. Mostly just the mild sort that hits you in the face and chills the sweat off the skin.<\/p>\n

Television!<\/strong> Time flies. Why, it seems like just yesterday that she was here, tripping over herself, learning how to do the TV thing. Now she’s a cool, calm, confident and self-possessed TV person at a station up north. She dropped by a segment last night, a total surprise.<\/p>\n