Friday, May 09, 2008

Gifts to Young People

Listen. Click on the "Posts" button in the green square gizmo below and you will be able to choose from several responses to the question, "what gift can we give our young?" Make your choice and click the play button.

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Now, please comment on what you have heard, or suggest ideas for classroom uses for this audio and blogging technology. Note: Almost all of these audio clips were recorded via cell phone, technology at the tips of our tongues.

Thursday, May 08, 2008

Ithaca falls

This is the gorgeous waterfall near some of our schools.
What will we make of what is offered us?

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Smell the Flowers


This morning I was walking down the block toward one of the schools I get to work at. A young mother was pushing her daughter along in a stroller, and just as they went by, the girl, a little one, asked, “Mommy, what’s that smell?”

I inhaled as the mother answered in a lively way that her nose was stuffed up, but that many plants were blooming and making the smells.

As I inhaled again, I smelled lilacs that I would not have noticed.