Most of today was spent in a video/podcasting workshop put on by this really awesome program from the University of Montana called TERRApod. The concept is exactly like something we are trying to get started in NYS 4-H -- training youth to develop short videoclips related to science. The difference is that this program has a foundation in creating documentary nature films.
Montana State University offers the world's only Master Of Fine Arts program in Science and Natural History Filmmaking. So TERRApod connects the MFA students to 4-H kids and video projects prompting/training them to develop podcasts that are of sound video and content quality. I was so impressed.
The rest of the day was spent catching up with friends. When you get to be an adult - you call this "networking"... hard work and great fun :). Dinner included a mariochi band (see picture). It brought me back to Sunday dinners at Nonni's when I was a little girl. No - no mariochi band members in the family...but Grandpa would often have a little too much wine to drink and seranade us in Nonni's little kitchen. He had a nice voice...and looking back - I think he just didn't have a chance to sing at church :) . The other pics are of shops around town.
