During Easter week, Spring Break here at Mount Holyoke College, seven students, seven alumnae and two Association staff went down to New Orleans and volunteered their time with Habitat for Humanity to help rebuild homes in the area devastated by Katrina. I created a blog for them that you can check out here.
I sent along a notebook and a couple cameras in hopes that they could blog during the week and they did post a few articles. I had configured the ability to recieve posts from mobile devices, such as a camera cell phone hoping that someone could post directly from the work sites. Unfortunately, that did not happen.
By the way, you cannot use Sprint phones to send email with photo attachments. They force you to use their Picture Mail service which costs $5 extra a month. Not only that you cannot easily post plain text email messages because there is no means to create a carriage return, at least not on my Motorola Razr 3M phone. The user name, blog ID and password have to be on separate lines, but I could not figire out how to do. I even tried to do it using the Google Gmail client and it was not possible - at least in a method that was easily visible to me. Post from my Sony Ericsson with Cingular was very easy. Not so with Spint. But I am on a tangent...
I did help create a post trip blog posting and added some photos and videos to the article. Hopefully there will be more post trip reflection posts. I also uploaded about 155 photos to our galleries and Flickr. There were over 450 pictures I had to go through. Many were very good. They captured the beauty, as welll as, the desolation of the area.