Can I post using only the iPad. It's harder than it looks, at least for me.... Sixty minutes and one new downloaded app later, here it is. The photo is of our newly netted apricot tree. Who put the ape in the apricot?
Welcome
Hi there! This blog is an experiment, intended for viewing only by a few select family members and kitties. I know from experience and those of others that the blog offers wonderful possibilities for communication and pedagogy in overseas travel. But I've never set one up myself. How hard could it be to teach myself?
So that is the experiment. I'd like try to document this visit to Kyoto and Doshisha International School and to have some fun doing it.
Some basic info: Kyoto is sixteen hours ahead of California time.... Tomorrow, we'll really leap forward in time. The weather there is predicted to be in the 70s and 80s next week and rainy, too. Rumor has it that there are slick gadgets one can attach to a blog to give viewers this kind of info, but I can't seem to figure how to get that working on this ...
Our hosts at Doshisha School have been incredibly gracious and encouraging of our visit. I look forward to meeting them and to seeing Kyoto and environs.
Thank you, all Guinea Pigs, for viewing this.
Thank you, all Guinea Pigs, for viewing this.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Initial Post
The blog offers teachers and their student travelers a powerful tool. I've seen this first hand and in the blogs of traveling students and teachers I've been reading for a few years now. But I've never actually set one up myself. Can I teach myself to do it? How difficult could it be? The trip to Kyoto might afford me an opportunity to experiment and find out.
John and I leave tomorrow morning. (Perhaps he'll want to join me in this experiment.) In the meantime, here is some information on my home, family, the perils of uploading pics, and adventures in syncing ...
Above you see Jessie, a.k.a. The Puke-asaur, unwilling conspirator to my first blog photo. He realizes he's being interrupted from his favorite activity: I think he's thinking: Should I bite him? Then again, I don't really think he thinks at all. Helen and Dani both know how much I will miss him when I'm gone:-)
Speaking of Helen and Dani, here is a picture of Helen, Dani and myself, sans the tops of our heads. Who needs those anyway?
And here is a picture of Danielle, newly graduated from Menlo School and the top of her head firmly re-attached...
And Helen, my wife, a (w)rapper of many gifts...
And finally the Picasso print over my desk taken with the iphone... can we upload this, too? Yes we can. The iPhone, it seems to me, is the easiest way to upload photos since I have the right connectors for the iPhone but not for the other doohickies [ a Japanese word, I think] that take photos.
Unfortunately, it's not the cleanest image. I'll try one now with the iPad itself...
Ah, that's better.... and that's Serena, a.k.a, 'Beanie. She lives for love.
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