Top Blog Stories of 2008

(A photo of our blog while online.)


With only a couple of days left in 2008, the SVDP-ALC blog will now look back at what we have done in 2008. We have over 120 posts on our blog and have covered many important events in literacy education and in the post-Katrina recovery of New Orleans. I will not, as some other news sources do, list our "top 10" stories because I think ALL of the stories on this blog are worth reading and important. But what follows is a list, in no partiucular order, of some of the significant things we covered since we first went online 10 months ago back in February 2008. Later on, before 2009 arrives, I hope to re-post some of the best photos from 2008 which appeared on our blog and maybe a few extra photos from 2008 that did not make it on the blog before.

Thanks to everyone who has been following the blog! (We now have over 2400 hits!) See you all in 2009, right here, at http://www.svdpalc.blogspot.com/

12/21/08 Winter Awards; 12/16 Sr. Silvia's "Rights of the Sick" essay; 12/14 Snow in New Orleans; 11/30 D-Day Museum Field Trip; 11/24 Tom Piazza Visits SVDP-ALC; 11/23 RampART Fest with LAC; 11/15 "City of Refuge" and Teacher/Tutor Guide; 11/12 Jennie Gorden Student Essay on "City of Refuge"; 11/10 Our GED Grad Jor'dan Watson (also Lance Williams on 11/17); 11/3 Our 100th Post to the Blog; 10/30 John Miller Writing Contest; 10/20 Email from Tom Piazza to our Blog; 10/19 John Miller stays in Tent at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; 10/15 Small Group Studies City of Refuge; 10/4 Remember Katrina, Lakeview Floods; 10/1 Kathy Dunlap, MD Volunteers; 9/19 Fred Swaim, the Socrates of Loyola; 9/12 Hurricane Ike; 9/9 Hurricane Katrina Memorial; 9/6 Hurricane Gustav in Baton Rouge (and our evacuation); 8/29 Remember Hurricane Katrina; 8/24 Finished Year One of AmeriCorps and SVDP-ALC with Certificates; 8/17 Sunset at South Pole Station Weeks Heist; 8/10 The Baby Has Arrived "Story of the Year"-- Gibson, Sarah, Owyn; 8/3 Guest Writer Robert Burch, PhD on Science; 8/2 Miss Kitty; 7/26 "Remember Katrina" Began; 7/21 Jason McDonald on the Ice at South Pole; 7/20 Miss Doretha's Gumbo; 7/19 Sharon Kenney Studies WW2 (Dr. Burch's WW2 book); 7/19 Shandra Cordovano at McMurdo; 7/17 Sr. Kathleen Joins SVDP-ALC; 7/15 Jennie Gorden Has Article accepted by Change Agent Magazine; 7/13 Oiling Eggs; 7/8 John Miller First Contact at Antarctica; 7/5 Leah Webster's Cake from South Pole; 7/1 South Pole Station; 7/10 Map of Antarctica; 5/12 Student Writing "Why People Overeat"; 5/1 Antarctica New Orleans Writing Project (first announced); 4/2 Student Wanda Miskell "New Orleans Parading" (first student essay on blog); 3/14 St. Patrick's Day Poem Innisfree by Yates; 2/22 Learning From Maps; 2/6 Welcome to our Blog! (Sr. Lory and Adrian start the blog)

The other two big stories were, of course, about the "Antarctic Sun" and the "Change Agent" magazines. We had both student and teacher articles accepted for publication in "Change Agent" magazine www.nelrc.org/changeagent , and the online magazine for the USAP/National Science Foundation called the "Antarctic Sun" http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1500 did an article about our pen pal program. That was really exciting and wonderful news.

Yes, quite a lot of stories; and they were but a few of the many.
-- Adrian