Although we talk about tomorrow and eventuallity, I am still deeply troubled by the inequity in education where so many with birthright educational immersion are so vastly different than others with not only little background but incredibly less access to technology.  The lack of a basic egalitarian educational system coupled with the oversaturation of selective funding is very troubling.  When the individual teacher is trying to play 'catch up' the group of students, without a background experiences to make it up, they fall further and further behind.

This is not an excuse for us as educators to give up our own technological development.  It still leaves me very disturbed hearing of the enormous inequity of hardware, software and related technologies.
My school is in the middle of things.  But I do hope that some of the people in the 'privileged' situations feel something about this issue.  Educators and legislators, along with society,  need to work on this at the same time as they promote these high standards.

Thought I would take a try at my Wi-Fi locations and see if I could make a very simple web page to use as a future link to my 'pro home page'.  Well I found a free web host and took several tries to sign up.  They seemed to have some good things.  When I tried to ftp my finished page (they use a menu) it wouldn't go.  Error with server...  Then I tried to just upload my file.  It  would appear and disappear.
I jumped over to Comcast (my isp) and was able to create and upload quickly *Hmm 45 min.).  I finally ended up with 2 pages.  One I thought wasn't working that I did on Netscape composer and one that I created on the sight itself.  All in all I was very pleased to be able to click on a web address and find my work.  It was a miracle!  If you wanna see it -  http://home.comcast.net/~ljelimon.index.html

Sorry, this is not a link, I think, I'm tired so I'll go blink!

I just took the quiz and actually enjoyed doing it.  I wish I could've seen what I didn't get because you know what I don't know... but I don't.  I'm ripe to learn it right now because I'm curious.  

I like assessments as a learning tool.  Someday if there's a chance I'll tell you about a really unusual class I once took. 

I am on my umpteenth draft of my index webpage.  The beauty of it is I am always tabla rasa and actually try completely different things.  The wow is that some of the things I'd struggled with are now becoming more fluent for me.  Frames and learning to position things are tricky.  I found a tutorial on creating webpages with Netscape composer.  I still need to study it but it seems to answer a lot of my questions.  I found it by searching in Google:  "how to create a webpage with Netscape 7.1 composer".

Perdition, trivia trap, eyesight impinger, addictor, neverending (except almost never!) resource, magnificent beast...  This is somewhat like the way I'd once described talent.  It's something like a team of powerful horses.  Sometimes you're in charge and go for a dashing and exhilerating ride.  Then again the horses can take control and you get dragged all over kindgom come.

Learning to do the link was great fun.  It seems so powerful.  Finally I understand the page layouts and how the web pages are functionally subset with the index/directory page.  Thank you for accomodating the variety of student levels.  I can now see where I'm headed.  Just investigated Comcast's web page set up.  They had batches of graphics and extras like counters and guestbooks.

So somewhere I decided it would be a fun rainy day activity to find free gizmos and art. It's possible, but a veritable jungle of false leads. Managed to find things I already found the other day and did not remember finding. Sometimes you just have to do it twice or twenty. On my journey I found some amazing graphics and web pages by 'artistes'. Well mine will be modest and will of course take longer than I imagined. Realizing again the good qualities of simplicity as one too many an animation appeared agonizingly irritating. Francesca Flails...

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