Thursday, September 10, 2009

My Virtual Trip to the Cape

Wednesdays are breakfast days for retired teachers in my town. As many as possible from my middle school gather at one of two diners on alternate weeks. One of our members was thrilled with the sand project, and asked if I wanted sand from Budapest. Of course I want sand from Budapest! Her daughter is going there next week. One of our other members is leaving on a cross-country (almost) trip, and brought 25 centrifuge tubes with him for collecting samples. Since Massachusetts was the first state to send sand, I decided to go through my collection and do Massachusetts. Almost all of the samples that my students have brought in are from Cape Cod. So yesterday I got to take a trip to the Cape, and added a number of samples to the Massachusetts map. The map looks great in Internet Explorer. When you click on the little image to bring up the 3X image, they look best in Phoenix. Firefox is a real problem. The large images break down. I still haven't solved the problem of showing the essays in Phoenix or Firefox. The text is lost in the table format I'm using.

I also heard from a teacher from New Mexico today, who is going to send some samples. That's great!

Clear Skies,

Charlie

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