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Showing and hiding text in a post

January 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Alexander and Sarah: In response to your question about hiding and showing text in a post, so you don’t have to reveal a spoiler for a book or movie, I found the post, “Toggle Visibility – Show/Hide Anything.” Here is my example. You may need to view JUST this post for the javascript to work. [...]

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Dad’s first episode for The International Cooking Show: Fondue!

January 7th, 2010 · No Comments

This evening my kids helped me create my first contribution to “The International Cooking Show,” sharing our favorite family recipe for fondue. We recorded this in one take on my iPhone, and I edited it in iMovie ’09. I used the iMovie settings shown in Steven Sande’s post, “How to make iPhone videos sparkle with [...]

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Tags: dad · food · littlesister · sister

Marco’s Maine Photos

October 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Marco Torres took some AMAZING photos yesterday and today, when we were able to have dinner and hang out with some other great Maine educators. These are a few of my favorites, see more in his October 2009 Flickr set. My photos from today are also available in a Flickr set.

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I’m going to Maine!!!!!!!!!!!

September 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments

For fall break I’m going to Maine! I’m going to Augusta,Maine. here are some links. For Augusta, Maine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta,_Maine for the conference: http://www.actem.org

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Tags: dad · sister · technology · travel

Highlights from Hawaii

July 19th, 2009 · No Comments

I have encouraged each member of our family to record a short audio message with AudioBoo of their personal highlight from our vacation. These are accessible from my AudioBoo profile page. As we are now on board our flight to the mainland and about to depart I do not think I have enough time to [...]

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Observations from Kilauea

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments

Sarah, Rachel and Alexander recorded some observations this morning from the edge of Kilauea Caldera this morning using AudioBoo.

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Tags: brother · dad · littlesister · sister · travel

Cool at the Volcano House

July 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

We flew from Honolulu on the island of Oahu to Hilo on the big island of Hawaii, today. We booked our flights early of course, the 1 way fare was $65 each, and the flight lasted 50 minutes. We spent several hours at a beautiful botanical garden today about 8 miles north of Hilo, and [...]

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Audioboo Reflections from Pearl Harbor

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Our family visited Pearl Harbor today. Rachel and I recorded six new Audioboos tonight, reflecting on things we saw and learned today. These are all linked from my AudioBoo profile page. Since I am mobile blogging this from my iPhone I can’t embed the Audioboos, but I will link them separately below. Rachel: Torpedo At [...]

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Tags: dad · littlesister · socialstudies · travel

Thinking about native cultures

July 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Our family enjoyed a luau this evening at the Hale Koa hotel in Honolulu, which is the military hotel on Waikiki. Since my dad is USAF-retired he could get us all tickets. The food and show were great. I am sure the closing fire dance act will be one of the big memories my kids [...]

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Swimming at Waimea Bay

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

This afternoon we spent almost 2 hours swimming at Waimea Bay on Oahu’s north shore. I have heard about Waimea before as the location where some of the big wave surfing happens here in the winter, but it was my first time to visit. It was spectacular! The waves break very close to the beach [...]

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