Extracurricular activity

On a related note, I am going to be facilitating an extracurricular activity on Thursday afternoons at YouthBuild Charter School. We really don't know what form this will take -- It will depend on what the students are interested in -- but it's our vision to give them a way to put their year-culminating portfolio projects on the web, help them build simple websites to promote their businesses or passions, and reinforce computer skills. I am going to be creating a wiki as an example, and then linking it to and from this blog, so hopefully that will mean I will create more meaningful posts for this site as well -- Lead by example, right?

New Special Collections website

Well, I am still here! We recently launched a
new Special Collections website. So I may be not writing, but at least I am cranking! We have gotten through our first 60 batch of Owen Wister letters, and are working on creating our Digital Wisteriana / La Salliana concept. We've been spending a lot of time updating Wikipedia with information on the Wisters. Given that the Wisters' estate was on the La Salle campus, we are really poised to be an authority on the family. Many Google searches take you to another website that I am now in charge of -- Belfield and Wakefield: A Link to La Salle's Past. I recently took over this website from Dr. Jim Butler, who had made it with an honors English class in something like 1994. I think its going to be a wonderful opportunity to incorporate digital collections and things like internet based geneologies and such and breathe some life into a website that hasn't been updated in a while. I have changed the style sheet on this website to make it conform to the La Salle "brand" more and started incorporating some images from the Wister Special Collection, so please look for this to develop more over time.