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Colorado High School Students Knitting Scarves

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Wed, 2008-03-19 06:46 — purlyman

This story was on Colorado Public Radio this morning during NPR's Morning Edition. The audio will be available later this morning online at KCFR.

It's a great story about students knitting (and learning to knit) scarves to send to students at other high schools where there's been a tragedy (e.g. school shooting). Includes an interview with a male student who learned to knit to participate in the project.

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Wed, 2008-03-26 18:14 — Darrel
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plain old html works, too,

plain old html works, too, fyi. i have a few tags disabled, but most of the usual stuff should all work fine!

Wed, 2008-03-19 07:59 — purlyman
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That is great!! What sort

That is great!! What sort of school do you teach at? That's wonderful.

Wed, 2008-03-19 16:16 — kurtys
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І teach at a regular

І teach at a regular Catholic elementary school. I also teach Ukrainian bilingual. But....teaching them to knit was just my idea. I didn't know that the whole class would become obesessed. But as we all know, once you start to knit....

Wed, 2008-03-19 07:54 — kurtys
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Hey that is great! But you

Hey that is great! But you should see my class of grade three's. I taught all 18 of them to knit. 9 boys. We are making slippers and face cloths for a charity house where women from out of town stay in our city for breast cancer treatment. There are some pics in the gallery. Neat.

Wed, 2008-03-19 08:02 — Darrel
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Here's one of the pictures

Here's one of the pictures of kids knitting from kurtys' class!

Thu, 2008-03-20 06:19 — purlyman
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How do you embed a URL

How do you embed a URL (link) in the post so people don't have to cut and past a URL?

Thu, 2008-03-20 07:47 — MMario
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Replace the square brackets

Replace the square brackets in the formulae below with pointed angle brackets....the url at the appropriate spot and the text you want displayed as the actual link in *that* spot.

[a href=The complete URL you are linking]text you want displayed[/a]

I could display my tag line as:
MMarioKKnits Yahoo Group

MMario - ambiguity is cultivated, it doesn't happen in a vacuum!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MMarioKKnits/

Thu, 2008-03-20 19:13 — purlyman
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That worked!! I fixed my

That worked!! I fixed my post above. I knew it had to be very similar to editing plain old html. Thanks.