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someone is looking at us...
...with a student's and a teacher's eye. It's more than interesting for me that Laura is drawing on our weblogging community in order to glean some lessons about adolescent psychology, and convey them in her class, via her project. Sure, anyone can do this sort of textual analysis -- this being an open community on the Net -- but it certainly helps that someone of Laura's clarity of vision is doing the writing. :-)
[ nb: oo, unintentional pun on that link up there. drawing. so, i've stolen one of Laura's recent drawings (dating from around Halloween), to put up here as visual clutter. not that her drawings are clutter... just the fact that I willy-nilly throw these things up on my weblog, which is supposedly about how text rules lol. ah, the irony.) ]
Not to brag, but I can't help feeling vindicated about using this tool. Sure, when I introduced Manila/editthispage to those of you who were in AIC last June, I told you that I realized instantly that this was what I had been looking for, during all these years of the Internet Classroom's existence. I saw its elegant simplicity -- the idea of it, and not necessarily the technical structure, which I saw was rough around the edges -- and knew that the potential for it being the engine for something truly wonderful was deep. But what we have here, half a year after we started it, is indelible proof that my faith in Manila as a community-building tool was well-placed, indeed. And as you all know, this weblogging we do has gone well beyond just virtual 'community building' on the Net. For many of you, your weblogs have become as indispensable as your web browsers, your e-mail and Instant Messaging clients, and even all the basic tools with which you tackle your lives in school and outside of it.
With varying degrees of regularity (from the daily to the weekly), all the weblogs on the TEXTS list to the left are vibrant and alive. When a weblog becomes bi-weekly, or less, they migrate down to the SILENCES list but, as Laura correctly pointed out, that list is not a dreaded "deadlogs" list (*chuckle*) but really indicative of a hopeful feeling on my part. Even Aaron Liao, first among everyone who chose to depart this medium, said recently that he'd be back, in due time. In any case, the growing RIPPLES list more than balances the silent weblogs. It's all good...
 So, I for one am looking forward with great anticipation to the stuff Laura will write about, in her class project. Whatever it is, it'll serve to cast a different light on what it is we do here, and frame things in a way none of us may have realized before. Mirrors are a good thing to be held up in front of ourselves, from time to time.
Or "reflections images," of the sort I like taking, sprinkled liberally over the corpus of these weblog days... *chuckle* I snapped this one yesterday evening, as my brother and I were leaving from the Piilani and Kiihana heiau (a Hawaiian sacred site) which is smack dab in the middle of Kahului and Wailuku towns.
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