Paul, I am retired now, and while I can tell inspiring stories about the days when, my modest contribution to education now is limited to what I write and upload on the web. I truly hope that as education branches out from the textbook to the richness that is possible on the World Wide Web, that we will see students taking more of an interest in the little details that make the story of history worth knowing, than back in the days when I was in high school and "history" consisted of memorizing lists of dates and battles with narry a name that wasn't preceded by General or President. I recently read a book that I hope to make into one of my personalized stories, about the great interpreter between the Pennsylvania colonists and the Native Americans of that part of the country, Conrad Weiser. It is sad that the county I grew up in was where this great man lived and from which he made his extensive travels into "Indian Country" to bring to two cultures into understanding, but I don't for the life of me remember ever learning anything about him. Schools and such are named for him in my home county, but I never learned who he was or why so much was named for him, including his "homestead" along a frequently traveled highway. Conrad Weiser was to Pennsylvania what Pocahontas would have been to Virginia if she had lived longer. The challenge I face is getting the word out to the teachers and parents that my website is there for them to use, along with the many others I have found in my work, that can do so much more for today's students than hanging in dangerous chat rooms. Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org