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Education

Dance, Dance Wheelchair Revolution

July 1, 2009 Education

This past weekend we headed out to the Heureka Science Center about a 20 minute train ride North of Helsinki. There are a ton of interactive, hands-on exhibits which I took photos of but this wheelchair exhibit was the most interesting.
The concept is simple. The quadrants of the circle light up randomly, one at a [...]

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John Maeda at Web 2.0 Expo

April 3, 2009 Education

One of my favorite presentations from this past week’s Web 2.0 Expo is now online. John Maeda, a designer & interactive artist, is now at the Rhode Island School of Design after spending time at the MIT Media Lab.

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Yahoo Developer Network, Points for Style

March 17, 2009 Education

Dan Theurer, one of the original evangelists of the Yahoo Developer Network, gave a talk (which I unfortunately did not attend) about lessons learned from building YDN. His slides are well worth a glance for anyone interested in building a developer community around their APIs.
Lessons Learned – Building YDN
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Nutrition education lunch boxes have high levels of lead

September 23, 2007 Current Events

In an ironic twist of fate, 56,000 lunch boxes distributed by California’s Department of Public Health with the logo Eat Fruits & Vegetables and be Active were found to contain high levels of lead paint. Yes, these were manufactured in China.
A full recall is underway.

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Cool Little Trick for Multiplication

August 30, 2007 Education

What’s 23 x 33? Here’s a visual way to solve the problem.
Draw 2 lines and then 3 lines to represent 23 and cross them with 3 lines followed by another 3 lines for 33 as in the drawing above. Add up the number of intersections in each corner of the square as if they were [...]

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Julia’s last day at school

June 1, 2006 Education

Julia had her last day of pre-school last week. Here’s a photo of her with one of her teachers, “Miss Michelle.”

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Open House

May 31, 2006 Education

Scenes from Tyler’s open house where parents got to wander around and see what our kids have been up to for the past year. For his big project, Tyler created a planet where “math would be different” and “2+2=22 and 4+4=44″

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Tyler’s First Grade Report Card

November 28, 2005 Education

Tyler is at grade level in all areas. He is well behaved and well like by others. He is a hard worker. He only needs improvement in working quietly at his seat. He talks a lot and is very interested in what others are doing. He needs to take his time with his handwriting and [...]

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The Walk to School

September 19, 2005 Education

Over on the work blog I’ve posted about switching jobs to work at Yahoo. I’ll be starting next week so I’m spending this week clearing the decks and getting ready. Tyler’s bummed because I will not be able to walk him to school anymore and it’s been the time of day when we get to [...]

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First Day of School & Labor Day is surely mislabelled

September 3, 2005 Education

Tyler’s never been one to dread the classroom and despite having had only one month off for Summer because of his two months at Japanese public school (shhh, he still doesn’t know that the rest of his friends had three months off), he was eager to get back to see his friends and crack the [...]

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