Monday, February 16, 2009

Did you know. . .

Christopher Columbus was born in 1951 in Sydney, Australia or that Sir Francis Drake was born in 1542 in Wayne, New Jersey.

This site was made to teach kids that not everything you read on the internet is true and they need to learn how to fact check. A good lesson for all of us in the age of Al Gore's World Wide Web.

5 comments:

Julie said...

I'm sure many will read it and not even think about the dates or places and still think it's true!

bluecolnago said...

al gore invented the internet? i could have sworn it was tim berners-lee. hmmmm.... must've gotten my facts wrong.

columbus is a young guy, eh?

are you coming back to iowa this year?

Andy said...

Julie I'm sure you're right, you should meet the people I deal with here.

Blue - Yep I'll be back, not sure when but you'll definitely see me on RAGBY.

Ann Lueck said...

Hey, Blue, of course he needs to come back to see his mom.

bluecolnago said...

andy's mom....
i figured that he'd come to see you. he'd better, anyway! :)