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There were a total of 431 hits for the 618 pics I was able to place during the two weeks that flicker was open to the public. Those images found in my website will be left permanently for the public to view at flickr.com/claudiapena and I know there’s a way to embed it in my website but that’s a summer project. Thank you for all your support!

Calendar: Taking a two week break from 2/1-2/14 to gather many more images and poems on my trip to Thailand. (Yes, I’ll place them on public display.) The best way to view them is to navigate through all the sets on the right hand side. Click on a set, I usually place a description on the cover, and the pictures come up.

Unusual things from the blogosphere: Never fear, the Grim Reaper is here and his accountant has a dot com. Via Peter Russell a world death toll clock. Wow, heart break really kills people (900k), most deadly infection is in the lungs so stop smoking, kiddos (210k), most deadly communicable disease is AIDS (170k), worst accidents are in cars (62k) and this was only 1/20! I stared for five minutes trying to find the systematic correlations between sets…wow.

Edusphere: The latest buzz on the virtual edu world is this video on teachertube.com about the 20th century student. I hate to throw a wrench here, but how many public education teachers have time, resources, and the class to do this with? My comment on the board: “I need a better perspective…how many of those 2.7 billion Google searches are made by children and more specifically, how many by my students? How many of those searches are not gaming or pornography related? How many texts use the grammatical rules I teach (remember the whole potential thing, even if you know it’s worthless unless you use it)? how many texts are longer than 3 words? How many students are doing this with their parents permission and how many parents don’t just see the computer as a babysitter?” I’d love to know your take please, specially if you are not a teacher.

Flickerize yourself! Did you know if you like one of the images on flickr.com/claudiapena, you can email me or comment to request it, then place it on a calendar, stamp, phone card, make a print, make a book, stretch into a canvas, key chain book, make a journal, a Lego trail or shirts and bags. Most can be done with the resolutions that I’ve uploaded through the magic of vector graphics. The best ones to place on a five foot canvas in a living room would be the stitched triptychs. If you need a high resolution picture and it’s not site specific (ie. the Cambodia or DMZ sets), please let me know and I can go back and retake it. Love the pic below: spot the English, Japanese, Korean, and Russian on one corner and four what?…Be back on V-day! Muach!