Learning Technologies Center

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In September, I got to take a workshop with Swedish artist Per Helldorff. Per taught us how to make automata, similar to the one here (we made just one of the two happy audience members you see in the movie), using a combination of woodcarving and carpentry techniques:

Peter K (LTC instructor) told me about this cool/scary tool that lets you infiltrate a person's picture with an image that gets projected onto the thing they're taking a picture of:
Image Fulgurator

A survey about video game playing, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project (and supported by the MacArthur Foundation, found that game playing is "universal" and "diverse" among American teens, and has the potential for civic engagement. The results are here.

This list of questions has come up in conversation around LTC a bit lately, and I thought you all might find it useful and interesting as well.

I don't know the full story with the project that Eleanor Duckworth was doing when she made this (she's at Harvard, in the School of Ed), but it's from something called "The African Primary Science Program: an Evaluation and Extended Thoughts".

Peter K sent me this link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/lichtfaktorcrew
a really sweet light painting animation... I tried a simple one in a staff workshop last winter. It's tricky to do but works alright if you're patient.

Our LTC Retreat is Sept 3-4 at a lovely girl scout camp (name/location coming). What ideas do you have for activities, projects, food, etc?  

Leah Buechley created a tutorial for her turn-signal biking jacket, made with the Lilypad Arduino.
Here it is:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/LilyPad/build.html
& instructables here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/turn-signal-biking-jacket/

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