Fall camping at Maumee Bay State Park

Camping in our new RV at Maumee Bay State Park this weekend...possibly our last trip of the season. From left: Jolee, Quinn, Sierra and Sam.

Making apple butter for the Apple Butter Fest

Gary Miller stirs apple butter in preperation for the APPLE BUTTER FEST in Grand Rapids, Ohio on Sunday, Oct. 14. Volunteers are making the apple butter at Kryder Farms in McClure.

Blade reporter lunches at old-fashioned diner

Blade reporter Tyrel Linkhorn and me brainstorming on the political profile of Archbold, Ohio for a Sunday edition expose. We are at MOM's Diner, and he is admiring the blast-from-the-past decor.

Kate touts rustwire.com in the classroom. Students will be shooting their individual photo stories for
this awesome website that features stories and photos about the rust belt, which includes Toledo.

2012 Frogtown Races on the Maumee River in Toledo.

The amazing world of mobile phone cell phone posts

Forecast is rain...on my sunroof.

   I just set up a text message system on my Droid that sends a cell photo straight to this cell phone page.
  Now we can tweet and blog photos from our cell phones. Cell phone photos will not replace traditional DSLR cameras, but they are a nice diversion, and students can shoot spot news at any time, even when their cameras are at home or in their cars.
  I am in awe of technology! 
  
  

Leading by example, thanks to my great students!

          Screen capture of a wall display at the Fine & Performing Arts Center at Owens.

   This is the first cell phone photo that I actually uploaded using the Twitter app. I then did a screen grap of the tweet so I can use this as a test for the new Cell Phone Photos page on the class blog. 
   Each student is required to have a cell phone page on their main blogs. Since they are required to do so, I better have one myself!
   Thanks, Jen, for being the first student to accomplish this task, which required setting up a separate blog just for cell phone photography, and then providing the URL for the new page on the main blog. Easy enough.