I got a last minute assignment this morning to cover the Indiana state superintendent, who was visiting an Evansville high school to check out the school corporation's new netbook program. Beginning this year, all high school students were rented the small laptops and will use them in class for various interactive assignments.

It made for a busy morning: I wrote the story, shot and edited a short video and also took a few photos. The one on the left and one more I took were used as the centerpiece art on A4.

I've brying to do more videos lately. I recently filed one on a local kid who dropped a message in a bottle off the coast of Florida and then, a year-and-a-half later, got a letter from a boy in the Netherlands who found it. And last week, when a delegation of residents from Evansville's Japanese sister city came to town, I did a video and story on them.