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Retreat Ideas

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?  

Vegetable Orchestra

Food nice music sound - its produce harvesting time again - Steve Jevning from Studio Bricolage sent me this link to the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra as a reminder....

1 Hour Design Challenge on Core77

Core77 has a great series of 1 hour design challenges that really show the design process at work--and at high speeds.

Spore!

Will Wright--the creator of the Sim City franchise--discusses the upcoming release of Spore.

This is more aligned with our vision than any other game, and it's gonna be *big*.

From the Wiki:

Processing 0146 is Available

Anyone else want to become a Processing guru?

Here's a video of Processing playing with its bestest friend; the Arduino:

"Digital Designers Rediscover their Hands" - NYT

Reposted here by contractual obligations: New York Times article on "making things". I wonder what "tiny sensors" and "wacky motion games" he speaks of:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/technology/17ping.html

Forwarded note from Bryan about JAVA for kids

Bryan sent out this note about learning to program in JAVA. Nice Resources

Hey Guys,

I'm exploring the JAVA programming language a little bit and stumbled across this page:

http://java.sun.com/new2java/learning/young_developers.jsp

It's kinda rad that they have created a series of resources to teach young developers how to get into the language.

Cheers,
bryan

Using Google Notebook

I've been using the Notebook plugin in Firefox to assemble notes for a couple things:

Gathering resources on Libraries and Scratch

and for my presentation at the Scratch conference about Game Pad

 

IDEO's New Website

It's awesome, lots of documentation on previous projects:

http://www.ideo.com/work/

TwT ** teaching with technology

We have a great group of 5 teachers now participating in our project and they're beginning to reflect on their ideas, practice, and our conversations about technology in the classroom.

I talked with Asia this morning about our Tuesday night cricket workshop - how it seemed that part of the issue in being a learner really was to get at overcoming the fear of trying something new, something unfamiliar, and that goes for us as we are building new programs, working with new partners, or looking at the new new...

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