Too Cute

Optical Mania

Ok, this is enough to make anyone cross eyed! Just stare at it long enough and watch it move!

Loki's Castle

It is just amazing that people continue to find new things on our planet. Take Loki's Castle for instance. Deep in the Northern Atlantic Ocean scientists have discovered another set of black smokers. These are in an area on the mid Atlantic Ridge where vents release super heated chemicals into the ocean. The cool thing here is that they are in a relatively stable area, they are huge and they may be the oldest of such formations to be found. I wonder what kinds of creatures they will discover here and if this deep sea ecosystem will be any different from the others previously discovered. Only time will tell!

Thoughts

This was sent to me in one of those chain emails a while back... but I loved it so I kept it and now I need to share it. Its a poem Audrey Hepburn wrote when asked to share her "beauty tips." It was read at her funeral years later.
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.

Class Posting

Last Class Blog

And thus I am done! I have transferred a copy of my lesson to the class wiki; I can’t wait to use it this year in class!!! I have also started a bunch of other lessons that I plan to finish during the next two weeks. There’s so much I want to do with everything I have learned from the Master (a.k.a. Barb)!
I did run into difficulty trying to load the lesson onto the wiki. Turns out all the cool things I do with word to make my lesson look good did not load correctly. I think I cut and pasted it nine times before it looked ok and flowed properly on the page. Two column layouts don’t seem to work… along with some other things. Anywho, it is done and definitely useable. I wonder if we will ever really be a computer a kid school?! I would love that! Just think of all we have learned and what we can do with it everyday in class! The kids would love it!!

Magazine Covers Unlimited

Well, I love yet another internet tool. I think I may have to find a way to use the magazine cover in my lesson plan. I must think!

Warholizer

I was just playing with Flickr Toys and this one caught my eye. What will they come up with next?!

Arctic Ice Shelf Break-up

While I am not one to subscribe to the theory that we can actually do anything about global warming, I do find it interesting to watch. This is a satellite image of Very large hunks of ice breaking of one of the Arctic shelves. The total breakage was about 8 square miles of ice sheets as can be seen in the photo. This happened in the North Atlantic and more of the same shelf, the Ward Hill Island shelf, may be breaking off soon.

I love satellites!

Cosmiclog link up

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/31/1237857.aspx
Paste this link to view the eclipse in China.