Barry's Sandbox

Taking advice from Barney, I'm going to nip it in the bud. This will likely be the last post at Desire2Blog, at least as it is currently configured and at this address. Maybe there will be a new and different version of D2B in the future - maybe not. As such, no new comments will be accepted for publication on the blog, because 1) I no longer care to moderate them, and 2) because one person can only be called an @$$hat and jackhole so many times (on a 4 year old post that I no longer care about) before they choose to ignore the whole thing. It was fun for quite a while. The site will remain here as long as I have some control over that option, but I might get hit by a bus tomorrow (Hurray! That jackhole deserves it!!), in which case all bets are off. A few stats: 1st post was on March 16, 2006 - a total of 360 posts were made - about 200,000 page views over 6 years - six of the top 10 posts (most views) have the word "Blackboard" in the title.

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A very amazing student from St. Petersburg College was awarded as the Outstanding Distance Learning Student at the ITC conference in February 2008. Her story and her acceptance speech is all anyone really needs to know about the value of distance learning. Pamela has agreed to let us share this video of her experiences - I think you'll find it inspiring. Best wishes to Pamela and her family.

I took one photo montage from my Flickr account and made four sample cartoon renderings from it using BeFunky , which is a rather funky site for creating cartoon panels out of photos. You'll see a few of the options in the slideshow below. Finally I made another of just the center picture from the montage and put a border/frame around it at BeFunky. Just trying it out.

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Experimental video for Desire2Excel Awards.

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