Why did I choose this particular photo? Well, let me tell you. I imagine that many of the participants in 23 Things, if they explored Flickr for any length of time, eventually entered the name of their school to see if any pictures existed. When I typed the name of my school, Trombly, into the search line, I was presented with this autumnal picture.
I even found a picture of paper pumpkins neatly inserted into each pane of glass in the classroom window is a project that I have been doing to decorate the front of our school for years. Yes, this is a picture from outside of my classroom in 2007. When I saw that someone had appreciated the student’s jack-o'-lantern craft so much as to have taken a picture and posted it on Flickr, you literally could have knocked me over with a feather! This goes to show that the Internet holds surprises for those brave enough (and lucky enough) to discover. However, try as I might, I was unable to add the pumpkin picture to this blog. Could it be that the formatting was the problem (it was a gif file, not a jpeg). Too bad as it was a very nice picture of student-created paper pumpkins.
Hmmmmmm, not sure why you couldn't post the image. If you want to share the link, I'll give it a try.
ReplyDeleteStill, a great photo that you shared.
What a wonderful surprise for you to find on Flickr. I am often astounded at the amount of information found on the internet, it is easy to see why students would think that the internet is the only way to find information.
ReplyDeleteI randomly chose this blog to to comment, and the picture was ringing a bell of my student teaching assignment (1992) in Grosse Pointe Park, Defer Elementary. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, perhaps the choice wasn't random after all?
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