Shimmering Glitters

We've been able to travel far with our partnerships!

This is a great opportunity to play with a very nice CAD program for the summer. It is a really fun, intuitive program.

Solidworks, Free 90-day License

Hey I'm using vimeo to host our prototype videos from our SMILE workshop testing. Asia will be going to Maker Faire as a SMILE journalist ;-) she'll be interviewing folks who are using the SMILE science activity search site.... (beta.howtosmile.org) Here's the video from our test interviews ( with local talent Janet and Robby) lookit them and give us feedback!These are prototyping the idea of having videos to promote good quality science activities in a very user-friendly search portal

Hey have you seen "The Way things Go..." video of an amazing Rube Goldberg contraption as art...

Well here's a current article on the artists:

http://www.artreviewdigital.com/index.cfm/artreview-digital/magazine.view/title/may2009/volumn/45/pageNumber/57

Teresa Harmala sent me this great link to a site about: a quick round-up of some inspirational Flash sites based entirely on animated illustrations.

It seems that these are great sites to inspire Scratchr's as well!

K

(this would normally be a shorter post about this cool article I found, but I went off on a riff; apologies!)

This is a really cool piece of neurological and psychological insight presented in a Wired article.

They have learned that "mirror neurons", which fire in our brains in response to observing someone doing something, are effected by our proximity to the person and also the possibility of interaction.
(more...)

Why, why, why are we not doing this? Could this not happen late at night, early in the morning, or at otherwise Omni-film-free hours?

Here's my math:

( (Number of youth enrolled in the "Big Screen Animation" class) x (Enrollment fee) ) - (Three hours pay for a projectionist) >> $0.00

"A dozen animation students at Rosemount High got a chance to produce work for an Imax theater."

Interesting article on good games.Its on Gamasutra:

Persuasive Games: Familiarity, Habituation, and Catchiness

Here's a highlight reel from Make: Day. It features Janet, Asia, the Design Team, Studio Bricolage, and more....all of our friends were there!

Asia and Janet researching and developing for homeschool workshops

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