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I am still in Israel and I just finished talking with a group of teacher in Vermont who were taking a course on using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. It was amazing to be able to connect with them. It was short, but exciting. I hope it motivates these teachers to try something in the future. They had to guess where I was calling from, so I used these pictures to give them some clues. 
The bread and butter that is hard to see here has Hebrew writing.
There was one thing that I wish I had answered differently. Someone there asked about the reaction to Obama’s speech.
I was struck in Turkey at how interested in Obama many people we talked to were. I told them how in Turkey I talked to a guy from Zimbabwe who is studying in Oslo, Norway and was on the trip to learn about archaeology in Turkey. He was very positive and hopeful in his comments, In Turkey the comments were all really positive.
In Israel it is different though and I actually have not talked to any Israelis yet, so I cannot honestly answer the question, but now I will make that one thng to explore while I am here. My American archaeologist friends told me that many Israelis are worried about how the Obama foreign policy to Israel will work out. They do not like his middle name and are concerned that he is really Arab. There are also others who do like Obama. It is complicated, like everything.The Skype conference was fun! I would do that again! Anyone else want to Skype? If so, just comment her or email me at janicef@jfriesen.net.
The new mascot to look for in some of the photos that I post is an armadillo with a cowboy hat. Texas has the armadillo as the state animal. The card on this armadillo says, “Texans have fallen in love with this mammal through the years in so far as to adopt it as the state mascot in 1981”. I need to come up with a name for this mascot and so I am going to put up another poll and I hope you will all vote. But first of all I need suggestions of names for the poll. What should we name the armadillo?Yesterday was another LONG traveling day. Here is what we did: 7:30 am taxi to the port at Kusadisi, 9:00 am ferry to Samos, 11:30 fight to Athens, 3:00ish (I can’t remember) flight to Cyprus, 9:00 flight to Tel Aviv, Israel, two hour taxi drive to ???? where I am now. We arrived at about 2:30 am. In spite of the long day and the many types of transport we did not lose our luggage and everything went as planned, so it was a miracle. But it is no surprise that I am tired today.
I woke up at 10:30 am in a strange place. The professor was gone. The poor guy had to go to meetings all day today starting at 7:30 am! I still don’t really know where I am. It is a kibbutz and I did take a walk and find a small grocery store where I could buy some food to eat. My main problem is that I cannot read the signs.
I did find one with a spoon and fork and it led me to the grocery store. I also finished reading my book. I have read two books and listened to another already on this trip. I read “On Beauty” by Zadie Smith last week because it was in the hotel library. I had to read it before I left Turkey, so I read a lot. I have also been reading “Three Cups of Tea, One Man’s Mission to Promote P
eace One School At a Time” which is an amazing true story of Greg Mortinson and the beginning of the Central Asia Institute. His stories make my trip sound extremely easy. I listened to “Tribes” by Seth Godin, I need to listen to that one again. It is thought provoking and I am not sure I agree with all of the things he says.I just got done Skyping with Bob Dunn who is one of the Followers of the Odyssey. I am going to Skype with him and his class tomorrow! They are in Vermont, USA.
Tomorrow evening if everything goes as planned I will be Skyping with Bob Dunn and two other colleagues of his as they present to a class in Vermont (I think of other teachers....) about how to use Skype in the classroom. I am very excited about this and hope it works out. Bob, if you read this comment adding your home email address because I lost it!I decided to take down the comment area on the right column. It was making the blog download really slowly and I think it is confusing to have two different places to comment. If you want to comment please click on the word comment below the blog post. These always have a number next to them (0 comments) for example to show how many comments there are. I am looking forward to hearing from you all.
I am still in Israel and I just finished talking with a group of teacher in Vermont who were taking a course on using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. It was amazing to be able to connect with them. It was short, but exciting. I hope it motivates these teachers to try something in the future. They had to guess where I was calling from, so I used these pictures to give them some clues. 
The bread and butter that is hard to see here has Hebrew writing.
