If there is a millipede and a centipede, shouldn’t there be a decipede? And how would you measure it?
I’ll tell you how: using this R316-30 metric ruler that has decimeters!
Thank you, Wescott, for fulfilling my dream of using a decimeter stick.
District Coach on the Go
03 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in Useful Information Tags: decimeter, Westcott
If there is a millipede and a centipede, shouldn’t there be a decipede? And how would you measure it?
I’ll tell you how: using this R316-30 metric ruler that has decimeters!
Thank you, Wescott, for fulfilling my dream of using a decimeter stick.
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
05 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in library Tags: Cooperstown, NY
From upstate New York, from Cooperstown, this one-room schoolhouse with a library of books. So cool.
A closer look shows that the titles include both School District Library, School Library, and random other publishers.
Sample list of titles
Can you decipher other titles?
09 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in iPad, NYC Technology Summit Tags: Bluebee Pals, disturbing, ipad, plushies, stuffed animals
When I saw this display at the NYC school technology summit last week, I was mesmerized. Whether by fear or delight, cannot say. Yes, these are talking stuffed animals called Bluebee Pals. Children will love them.
The animals move their mouths to speak what is on the iPad (or sing, chant, moan, growl, etc.) and they sway their little bodies and shuffle their limbs.
Here are additional videos:
The animals come with their own apps, and can speak anything that is on the iPad.
25 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Animation, Ish, Scholastic
This is a demonstration of a making a frog jump using the software Animation-Ish. It is running at 8X speed.
I saw it at Scholastic Corporation HQ in SOHO.
25 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
I saw this today. It came with its own donation label and piece of ribbon from the installation ceremony.
Here is the view from the front.
This is the label on the bench. Are you familiar with any of these organizations?
24 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in 3D World Tags: avatar, glitch
Did you ever feel that you were running fast, but still standing in one place? These 3D World avatars must know exactly what that feels like.
24 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
This piano is in the auditorium, right next to the stage. Which is a pretty logical place for it to be, when you think about it. Music, stage, theater, etc.
Behind it is a wheelchair lift, the kind designed to get wheelchair-bound students from the seating area up onto the stage. Which is also a pretty Americans-with-Disabilities-Act kind of thing, too.
Yet here is the rub: the auditorium is on the third floor of the school and there are NO ELEVATORS in the school.
So how is a wheelchair user even going to make it to the third-floor auditorium?!?
That is why the piano is blocking the lift, which is never used and was probably part of the stipulations for getting an auditorum built in the first place.