6 Feb 09 It's Gone!!!!

6 February 2009
IT’S GONE!!!!

Last week, I was one of the lucky ones to be able to blog using the IP address http://172.18.22.43/Default. aspx. Now, that address is some international corporation called Ektron with an EIntrenat Starter site in its place. What happened? I was aware that there was trouble in blog land and know that addresses and IP codes change, but wow, that was fast. In the survey of other blog sites, that STEP put out, I thought the edublog one would best meet our needs for this exercise.

Besides blogging, I have been ALL OVER the primary source internet sites of Library of Congress, National Archives, and Smithsonian’s American History Museum. I was looking for information and documents about Abraham Lincoln for his 200th birthday. I got some nice stuff to share with the students.

Tech wise, I finally got Safari Montage reconnected at our school. I am at the moment downloading and making CDs of John Fishback and Marcie Wolf-Hubbard’s art residencies here at Rockledge. I spent the morning teaching 5th graders how to use the digital video camera. I had them in pairs. They did little bits of Lincoln’s words and life. One student worked as the videographer, while the other performed. They were very creative in how they wanted to be done. I am not done yet, but I have other things to do today, like…write this blog and clean this dusty, dusty library.