Hey Folks,
My plan is to have students post panoramas here of all the checkpoints that they can during the race, but having issues displaying them in this forum's code.
So, I'm trying to build a custom plug in for the board, but having some issues. Appreciate the feedback.
The reason the colors look odd is that only the "pre-load" low resolution data is displaying, and it is in sepia tones. That's the issue I'm having. It's not supposed to look like that, as there is a full color version
Here is the link to the actual Flash panorama:
Diomede Village - Ice Fog & Russiahttp://www.bssd.org/dio_standing_place_fog.swfThe trick is writing some code that will allow the panorama to display and be manipulated in the forum itself. I think it's a fixable thing. Not sure if there INTEREST, but I think it's doable. Let me know if you think panoramas of the checkpoints would be worth doing, or not.
Now, about Diomede village. It is on Diomede Island, which is where the Bering Strait separates the Bering Sea (to the south) and the Chuckchi Sea (to the north). We have a school there. It roughly 1.5 miles from the International Dateline. So....the cliffs you see in the panorama are "tomorrow". The place where the pano is shot is "today", and the cliffs across the Strait are 23 hours ahead as the earth turns. You are looking "into the future", in a way. Here is a diagram of this:
Here is our BSSD recruiting video done by former teacher Bill Bryson and some students. You probably remember Bill from the SBT coverage.
Diomede Videohttp://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Diomede_OverviewThanks again for the eyeballs.
Regards,
Johncn