{"id":983,"date":"2009-10-30T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2009\/10\/30\/knights-fest-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-10-30T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:10:40","slug":"knights-fest-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2009\/10\/30\/knights-fest-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight&rsquo;s Fest 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Maria&#39;s Knight&#39;s Fest Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26668694@N05\/4059315996\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Maria&#39;s Knight&#39;s Fest Interview\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3494\/4059315996_406b8ff0ae.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, on the day after Trick or Treat, the local school has Knight\u2019s Fest.&#160; The mascot of the school is the Black Knight and the design and layout of the elementary building is that of a medieval castle.&#160; Knight\u2019s Fest gives each student a chance to dress up in some sort of medieval costume (we see a lot of knights and princesses on Trick or Treat night) and participate in a parade, concert and Knightly games.&#160; Of course the elementary principle is the king and the school secretary is the queen.&#160; Often they ride in a horse drawn carriage during the parade.<\/p>\n<p>Every day the elementary, middle school and high school have video announcements.&#160; With the addition of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbschools.net\/tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">TriCaster<\/a> this year, KnightVision (catchy name) has become an impressive daily broadcast on UStream.<\/p>\n<p>They were onsite during Knight\u2019s Fest and happen to interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/recorded\/2454536\" target=\"_blank\">Maria<\/a> (it\u2019s about 13 minutes in).&#160; Notice the text over the lower third in the video.&#160; The whole operation is produced by the students.&#160; They operate the cameras, mix the video in real time adding Creative Commons music and pipe it out to UStream.&#160; There must be a long line to get into the class, because they certainly look like they enjoy what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Knight&#39;s Fest 2009 (5)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26668694@N05\/4058568007\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Knight&#39;s Fest 2009 (5)\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2675\/4058568007_fae64aaedf.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Knight&#39;s Fest 2009 (6)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26668694@N05\/4058568835\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Knight&#39;s Fest 2009 (6)\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/2497\/4058568835_d542abed02.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Knight&#39;s Fest 2009 (5)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26668694@N05\/4058568007\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video class also broadcasts Van Buren sporting events.&#160; Our football games this year have had three cameras mixed down live with scores and other overlays.&#160; Hopefully instant replay review is not in the near future for high school sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, on the day after Trick or Treat, the local school has Knight\u2019s Fest.&#160; The mascot of the school is the Black Knight and the design and layout of the elementary building is that of a medieval castle.&#160; Knight\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2009\/10\/30\/knights-fest-2009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,164,162],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-knights-fest","tag-ustream","tag-vb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}