Menu for Mary Nelson's b-day (59th or something?)

Crustoni with chevre and salsa-tapenade
Prosecco
Garden lettuce with Asian apple, gorgonzola and maple-candied pecans, balsamic dressing
Riesling
Vegetable Gateau (terrine lined with crepes filled with layers of carrot, mushroom and broccoli)
Salmon Cakes with lemon herb dipping sauce
Pinot Noir
Hazelnut Torte with Buttercream

James made the vegetable gateau. It was an incredible labour of love. I made the torte. The rest sort of fell into place. What I'm really trying to figure out is how to not end up with pounds of ground salmon and buttercream at the end of it all...

Cooking with James is fun. Looking forward to more fests.

100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on Twitter
This is a useful link for newbies to Twitter, however, it is especially useful for educators who are looking to implement Twitter into their students' learning. I would love to hear feedback from teachers who are or who are trying to use this and other networking tools in their primary classrooms.

I subscribe to Squidoo Lens of the Day, and this is the one I got today. It is relevant to my profession and has got me thinking of how to incorporate Twitter into my Grade 3 classroom.

http://www.squidoo.com/hacking_education

About this link in a nutshell:

"On March 10th Union Square Ventures put on a conference called Hacking Education. The idea was to get a bunch of smart people in a room to re-imagine how education could (and should) work in a web 2.0 world." (opening sentence from email sent by Squidoo Lens of the Day).

Thousands of tweets (from during the conference) have been distilled into a few hundred relevant and coherently grouped tweets.

Kudos to Alex Krupp, whose Squidoo Lens it is.

Here's a pic of me and someone really terrific.

I'm figuring out if having this blog actually has a point. I've got facebook and email which, thus far, has proved to be sufficient in sharing pictures and communicating with friends. Um... facebook has notes... that's a bit like blogging, right? Possibly the format of this is a bit more elegant. Kay, we'll see...