Okay, so if you’ve been at CCC the past two weeks, you’ve been a part of a cool experiment: Video Teaching. This is an idea we’ve been wanting to use for a while now, even before we were planning on going multi-site. As I mentioned in this post, I would love to hear your comments and feedback on some of your thoughts on it when you get a chance. While not the whole message was video, key points and parts were.
This Sunday we’re going to be breaking some new ground at CCC….I don’t want to say what it is and ruin the surprise, but all I’ll say is the next three weeks will give people a taste of things to come. Should be an interesting experiment. I’m going to be speaking to our students so I won’t get to witness it live, but I’m VERY interested in the feedback. Stoked about speaking to our students. Going to be talking about Superhero and Matthew 14. Pray for me and for the students that God would really rock some.
My brother sent me this link today. It’s called the Pickens Plan. Very interesting. You can put me in the camp that would REALLY like to seriously put our money and new initiatives toward finding viable, alternative fuel sources.
Here’s a quick video: Pickens Plan Video
Here are some great tips on running ProPresenter or any other presentation software. If you are involved in any way with that, I would highly recommending checking out this post:
http://rickymerrefield.com/food-for-thought/thoughts-from-a-guy-who-runs-propresenter/
I’ve been registered with Twitter for about a month but haven’t “twittered” yet…I’m going to work on that next week. Twitter is the next move in “blogging” and will probably overtake it within the next several years, imo.
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Kim and I are heading down to Hilton Head for about 4 days, just the two of us for some serious vegging. Then, Kim will head back to Aiken. Myself, Danny and Walter Ray will be staying down until the following Sunday doing video production for a student camp called Breakaway. I usually spend that week doing video edits, helping to run live productions of worship services and capturing footage of them. I don’t see the beach much at all during that time. Glad for the few days leading up to it.
Wanna watch YouTube vids that are better quality? Huh? Well, do you? 
Here’s a little trick.
First, choose your video, let’s say the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS76rkX8T-k&NR=1
Now, after the video begins playing, pause it. Next type in the following out beside the web address of the video in the URL window: &fmt=18
The url should now read the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS76rkX8T-k&NR=1&fmt=18
Go to this new address and you will see a higher quality of this video. Adding “&fmt=18″ (without the quotes) should affect many videos out there. It is basically calling up a higher quality (and different format…I think mp4) video.
The summer of blockbuster continues. Up next is the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Kim and I took Hannah to see this movie last night. Can I just say that Movies are crazy expensive. Anyway, we really enjoyed it. I thought that the acting was very good in this flick. The four main characters (Peter, Susan, Edmond & Lucy) were the same as the first movie and I thought they have matured as actors, not to mention the obvious growing up part. There are tons of good truths communicated in this movie, too. The action/battle scenes were done well while not showing a lot of blood and gore. The special effects for the movie were done by the same folks that did Lord of the Rings (WETA workshop) so you know they are excellent. Overall, I would definitely give this movie an A, and we decided we will definitely buy this one when it comes out on DVD. There are no extra scenes after the credits so don’t stick around unless you really want to. Also, I would recommend seeing the first film in the Narnia series before going and seeing this one. Otherwise you may be lost. It’s a good rent, too.
Okay so I was ticked when one of my two rockers was voted off of American Idol (Carly) but the other rocker, David Cook brought it home. Good for him
