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Yes, we love Brainpop and Brainpop Jr., but have a suggestion

And speaking of obnoxious humor that kids love (see above post), Brainpop knows how to make use of it with Tim and his robot Moby to draw kids in and capture their interest while dispensing science knowledge (and health and social studies and math and technology). Why do I bring this up? I can’t be…

September 21, 2006
Grand Canyon, Arizona

Grand Canyon, Arizona View On White

September 21, 2006
Perhaps this will prevent one laundry disaster

You know those new big navy blue towels you just got from IKEA because you somehow lost a whole load of towels at the laundromat, and you need to bathe but you don’t have time to go to the laundromat and wash those new towels first? Which may be fortunate because you don’t know yet…

September 21, 2006
Grand Canyon, Arizona

Grand Canyon, Arizona View On White

September 20, 2006
Portugese Man O' War were a hit

Brainpop is launching Brainpop Jr., geared for K-3. Right now it is free but will later be subscription. H.o.p. and I realized it was there today and he’s been tooling around it this evening and is so far enjoying it. Agh, it will be a separate subscription service from their regular Brainpop. More bucks. Maybe.…

September 20, 2006
Tree, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Tree, Grand Canyon, Arizona View On White

September 19, 2006
Gack. Trials and tribulations of 2D animation software are just beginning

Taught H.o.p. the Base 2 mathematical system Monday using “The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat” for introduction only. Penrose the cat certainly opened the door to his being inteested but it wasn’t thorough enough. H.o.p. was all excited about the idea of a cat that could do math and then I had to burst…

September 19, 2006
Some thoughts on "A Woman Is A Woman"

Communicating feelings with book titles I put on “Une Femme est une Femme” last night and watched it through, thinking I’d blog it and then decided no, it’s an impossible film to blog. It’s a wonderful film, a stunning film. I know I didn’t begin to get it when I saw it the first time,…

September 19, 2006
Tree and Tourists, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Tree and Tourists, Grand Canyon, Arizona View On White

September 18, 2006
Heston Listening Party

I don’t do parties but decided to do this one. Heston was having a listening party on the roof of the 17 floor William Oliver House downtown for his upcoming CD (Marty engineered and mixed 11 of 14 songs), part of the purpose of which was to do a survey and pick the first single.…

September 17, 2006
Girl with Windswept Hair, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Girl with Windswept Hair, Grand Canyon, Arizona View On White

September 17, 2006
Oh yeah, the acting class

I gather they were kittens, lions and mice on Saturday. That’s all I know. H.o.p. is having a great time with the class but when I grill him he says it was forever ago and doesn’t remember any more than what he’s told me. The assignment for his next class is to come with his…

September 17, 2006