Fall Paddling and Picture Taking


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Listen to the streams trickling into pools along the river. Paddling down the river, there were many nice places to stop in the warm afternoon sunshine and photograph the rich fall color. Click the title of this posting or see paddle map for a link that goes to a map of the paddling route that was taken below the Dillsboro Dam. The photograph entered yesterday was taken not far from where the paddlers are in this picture.

Meta-iCROP thinking. A part of the content for 21st century learners is to learn how advances on the net increasingly make certain types of communication easier than the tools previously provided for desktop computer applications for doing similar things Further, they make other things possible that cannot be done in paper communication, such as adding comments and related source material directly into the original publication, as this blog technology allows.

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