Swierzy paints Lester Young

This is the painting I bought on a whim in Vegas at the Venitian a few years ago for $1,200. It's a portrait of jazz musician Lester Young, painted by Polish artist WALDEMAR SWIERZY. It hangs in my livingroom. It is the only piece of art I own that cost more than $25 - except my own, which are priceless.

http://www.poster.com.pl/swierzy.htm

Starting to like Twitter more and more

Even though I'm totally alone on Twitter - just a bare few friends are posting, I'm still inticed by the concept and am thinking of many cool ways to use it with a class -

1. Write a haiku
2. Use three vocab words in context in 140 characters
3. Give concise response to discussion topic
4. Sum up novel and short story themes

Here are some links to Twitter in the classroom ideas

http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/

Twitter FAQ
http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=26

Try some new gadgets

If you haven't tried any of the Blogger Gadgets, you ought to. There are some good ones.

Susan's 60 Birthday Party Slideshow

Whose who was there. We had fun.


This slideshow comes from Picasa, Google's photo sharing service. If you upload pictures to it, you will see an option to "Embed Slideshow" into your Blog or any website you design. Pretty nifty.