The Ever Changing Internet

Yesterday I gave my Google lesson to the kids. We played with a bunch of the features of the website like the advanced search, news search, translate, and so on. At the end of class, we played with Google Maps, which I found out that they LOVED. I'll admit, I enjoy looking at the "satellite" photos of familiar places as well as famous landmarks and such. Well today's plan was to show them the Google SightSeeing Blog which is a cool site that has a bunch of links to neat things that people have come across on Google Maps. Yesterday afternoon, they had a cool picture of a hill that looked like an Indian listening to an iPod. Very benign, pretty cool, and a perfect site for my class. Fast Forward to 2nd Period this morning. I have the kids fire up the internet and head to the site and THIS is what they are confronted with! Needless to say, I hurried the kids off of the site and straight over to the next task as fast as I could. Later I was relating the story to my principal and he laughed and told me about how he'd done the same thing years ago at Bos. I was pretty embarassed, but the kids didn't even seem to notice. Go figure.