Posted in exploratorium on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…and other beautiful decorations adorned the marble machines that we created last week in training. In case any one is wondering, that’s a homage to Amisha and her signature yellow pants.
Click this link to Luigi’s Learning Studio Blog for some more great pictures and a video of all the twists, turns, bumps, and swings.
Marble Machines [...]
Posted in exploratorium on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the process of researching activities to do with the students who come on field trips, we found a book called More New Games by my favorite hippie game creator of all time, the legendary Andrew Fluegelman. The games that he created can be best described as things you might play in a giant field [...]
Posted in exploratorium on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today was the first day of Field Trip Explainer Training for the 2009 semester. We spent some time discussing our hopes for students who will take field trips here and share the museum with us this year. Some common themes included hoping that we’d help these kids- especially those who struggle in school- to spark [...]
Posted in exploratorium on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If there are two things that explainers can’t seem to get enough of it’s food and coffee. With the new school year starting next week we are going to be filling our bodies with the energy needed to dissect cows eyes, make up songs, and perform magic tricks.
I’ve been seeing this graph around lately and [...]
Posted in exploratorium on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today during the P.I.E.L.A.R. experiment, we worked more in Scratch and made our first video games. Ryan made a Mister DNA that tries to eat primordial soup. I made a kitten who tries to avoid wearing mittens. I was inspired by this hilarious clip, and by a real live kitten i met who wouldn’t let [...]
Posted in exploratorium on September 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just noticed that our blog was picked on the Online University dot com top 100 list for museum blogs which as far as I can tell is the highest honor that can be bestowed in this category.
For proof check out the link
Top 100 Museum Blogs (scroll down… we’re number 85)
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Posted in exploratorium on September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Luigi, Ann B. and myself have been working a little bit with a really cool programming application called SCRATCH. It’s basically a graphical interface for programming little animations, funny movies, and simple games. It was built by students at MIT and the website serves as a community for users to share their creations. Luigi used [...]
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