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AfricaLibya fighters take last Sirte escape route NTC fighters reach the coast and isolate remaining loyalists in two pockets of Muammar Gaddafi's hometown. 12 Oct 2011 19:27 GMT | Africa, Libya National Transitional Council (NTC) forces have reached the coast near the city of Sirte, cutting off the last remaining land escape route for forces loyal to deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and isolating them in two remaining pockets inside the city. Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown, has become the key battleground in the NTC's final push to control the country. Though the town of Bani Walid, south of the capital Tripoli, remains in loyalist hands, NTC leaders have said they will declare Libya liberated once Sirte falls. Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley, reporting from close to the frontline, said that fighters had "punched through the last line of defence", a wall surrounding the heart of the city, and were within 200 metres of the centre. The fighters had so far encountered light resistance and suffered no casualties but the fighting ahead was much more intense, our correspondent said. Live Box 201142012730683527 The remaining Gaddafi loyalists were staging a fierce rearguard action and had "a lot of ammunition and a lot of resolve", Birtley said. The advancing fighters had found a lot of discarded weapons and uniforms and had captured a number of black Libyans who said they were civilians. But NTC fighters believed they were Gaddafi soldiers, Birtley said. "This is a heartland of Gaddafi's support but that now is crumbling. The hold they have on Sirte is crumbling by the minute." Earlier, Abdul Salam Javallah, commander of NTC units from eastern Libya, told the Reuters news agency that Gaddafi forces inside the Mediterranean city were cornered in two neighbourhoods near the sea. "We are dealing with them now with light weapons because there are still families inside," he said. There are fears the fighting could breed long-term hostility, making it hard for the NTC to unite the vast North African state once the conflict is over. Key locations fall NTC forces in Sirte have already captured several of the city's strategic locations including the main hospital, the university and the Ouagadougou conference centre, and on Tuesday said they had also taken the city's police headquarters. But the protracted battle for Sirte has raised concerns about many civilian casualties. Desperate civilians were still trying to flee the fierce street clashes as fighting continued but that made it hard for advancing fighters to positively identify civilians from opposition fighters, Birtley said. With Tripoli, the capital, and most of the country already under their control, NTC leaders have said that they will declare Libya "liberated" when Sirte falls. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the NTC chairman, visited fighters in Sirte on Tuesday, standing on the back of a truck as they shouted "Libya, Libya!" and fired their weapons into the air in celebration. Diplomatic moves Earlier, Jalil met Canada's top diplomat in Tripoli to reopen its embassy and announce funding to help the council secure weapons stockpiles. John Baird, the foreign affairs minister, travelled in an armoured convoy to meetings in Libya's capital, accompanied by fellow officials and business leaders seeking to restore trade ties with the oil-rich nation. "Our government remains committed to protecting the Libyan people and supporting their efforts to build a brighter future for themselves," Baird said in a statement. NATO said the fall of Gaddafi's hometown would mark an "iconic" moment in Libya but would not spell the end of its air campaign, according to the alliance's top military officer. Giampaolo Di Paola, the chairman of the NATO military committee, told AFP that Gaddafi loyalists were like a "cornered beast". "When the ferocious beast is cornered, she will fight until the end," Di Paola said in an interview at NATO headquarters. "On the one hand, yes, I am surprised by their capacity to resist but, on the other hand, they have no other choice." Sirte has become one of the final bastions, along with the desert city of Bani Walid, for Gadddfi forces, two months after the NTC took control of Tripoli. Gaddafi has not been seen since the fall of the capital, and the location of many of his inner circle including several of his sons remains unknown.Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield
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Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously open affair with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that ultimately led to his demise.
In this riveting short history—the first in his American Portraits series—H. W. Brands traces Fisk's extraordinary downfall, bringing to life New York's Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the railroad tycoon Jay Gould.
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Traces the life of notorious 19th-century financier James "Diamond Jim" Fish, providing narrative coverage of his business and personal exploits before he was gunned down in New York's Grand Central Hotel by a rival. By the Pulitzer Prize finalist author of The Age of Gold. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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The Canon in D major (full German title: Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo or Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins with Bass Accompaniment) is the most famous piece of music by Johann Pachelbel. It was written in or around 1680, during the Baroque period, as a piece of chamber music for three violins and basso continuo, but has since been arranged for a wide variety of ensembles. Johann Pachelbel Canon in D major was originally paired with a gigue in the same key, although this composition is rarely performed or recorded today. Johann Pachelbel canon in D major was commonly played at weddings and is well known for its chord progression which has become one of the most used in popular music. It is sometimes supposed that classical music is intrinsically timeless and is not subject to the caprices of fashion. Johann Pachelbel Canon in D major may be said to both support and refute this assertion. As tracked by mentions in The New York Times, Johann Pachelbel was all but unknown to United States audiences before the 1930s: During the 1930s, Johann Pachelbel organ music, particularly the chorale prelude Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her ("From Heaven Above to Earth I Come", German's most popular carol before Silent Night), began to be played regularly by church organists during the Christmas season, and performances of other works are occasionally mentioned, such as organ chorale variations, a motet and a Magnificat. Johann Pachelbel Canon in D major was first mentioned on March 15, 1871, and the context, "a Bach fugue and a Pachelbel canon" suggests that the work was not familiar. However, by May 20, 1977, it was being referred to as "the famous Pachelbel canon in D major." read more about Pachelbel's canon in D |
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CordwainerNot a twister of cord, but a worker in leather. Our word is the French cordouannier (a maker or worker of cordouan); the former a corruption of Cordovanier (a worker in Cordovan leather). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Cordwainer from Infoplease:
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There's a prayer in the Catholic mass, right after the congregation says the Our Father together where the celebrant prays Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. and then invites the congregation to share a sign of peace–a handshake, hug, kiss.
The part where the celebrant prays to "protect us from all anxiety" was always my favorite line. There was one priest, I think he had been a former Army chaplain, who used to say mass occasionally at Saint Raphael's in Williamstown. He always, without fail, altered that prayer to this: Protect us from all useless anxiety, with extra emphasis on the useless part. It simultaneously cracked me up, and inspired me. Today's collage, while slightly different, is made with that intention in mind. May we all be protected from useless anxiety, useless labor, useless whatever.


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Five Signs of True Love.
We all know the cliché of real love in our society.
Watch a movie, listen to a song, read a romance novel. They all give you the ooey gooey, rip your heart out, kind of love.
Those illusions are more speed bumps on the way to the real deal.
Sign number one: True love has no time limit.
Whether you meet and its kismet or a long, torturous on again/off again courtship, when the seeds of true love have been planted it can take its own sweet time to sprout.
Let me clarify:
Kismet aka destiny aka whatever you want to call it.
May not necessarily be instant chemical attraction, though it could rock your world.
It is rather a "knowing" feeling.
And even though you "know" and the other person knows, it doesn't mean both parties are ready for "true love."
And that brings me to the long, torturous, on again/off again courtship.
If it weren't so prevalent, I wouldn't mention it here.
Some who have met the love of their life can't seem to get out of their own way and have checked into the lovesick wing of a virtual hospital.
It's time to heal and get out of this place.
Where old wounds keep festering; hearts broken into shards can't pick up their pieces and everyone needs more nursing. It's a place to be stuck in the past and congregate with others to tell their tales of woe.
True love leaves this person torn.
They cannot be fully open, present and vulnerable in a true love relationship, and they can't let go either.
No one can let go. Or walk away for good.
We c'mon back like a rubberband on steroids.
One or both of us have an allergic reaction, so we must stay away from what feels good, happy and kind, because some day too this love will eat you alive.
And the two people on this path are in a cosmic collision.
Feels like karma, feels like there's no choice, feels like you must be nuts.
Yup…it's a lesson alright!
You see, I have found through my own experience and watching others in this dilemma, sometimes it's about patience (not to be confused with waiting).
You receive a gift with the challenge of something so good, being so painful, because one person (or both) has their eyes turned to the past.
Patience whittles away inauthenticity and gives the gift of self-love, confidence and knowing oneself.
You embrace the awareness of sign number two: Your ego does not win.
When you meet someone with a soul, heart, intellectual, friendship, love connection, your ego may pull all its usual bullsh*t. In fact, count on it!
Until your ego is reminded over and over again that our purpose of being here is to love. And the beautiful messed up soul in front of you needs your love as much as your messed up self needs your love.
True love works its magic on your stance. It softens you allowing the flow of those feelings. You realize, yes this is pure, true love.
No matter if it is kismet or a long struggle, the ego does not get top billing in a relationship based in true love. And it does not guarantee the outcome.
Sign number three: You have a sense of humor, lightness, connection and goodness even when the shit hits the fan.
It's called true love, unconditional and even if you do decide to part ways, love is always there.
Sign number four: You can't escape the synchronicity.
It is almost ridiculous!
Whether it's the weird things you have in common or how you share the same breath or that your brothers are both named Bob or your similar perception of life.
How about finding out you crossed paths more than once years ago without knowing it?
Or on the flip side…
Everywhere you go their name like a neon sign or some impossible to ignore song or commercial has you tripping over yourself, scratching your head wondering, why can't I escape this crazy fun house!
Don't run or hide.
Give in, it's easier.
Take it as a confirmation, that you're in a good place.
Whether you are both feet looking into each other's eyes or running in opposite directions, just know with synchronicity—it ain't over 'til it's over.
Lessons in life come from our own evolution.
You want to evolve?
Relationships are the perfect place for spiritual growth.
And when we try to bypass or cut short the lesson, surprise! We get to repeat it!
Who doesn't love the torture of repeating patterns, trying to make sense of our choices, feelings about ourselves and what attracts us to these challenges?
True love is the glue to your heart binding you to your own potential soul growth. Awareness is the illuminator.
Whether you marry, live together or run off and join the circus, true love stays with you, because it just "is."
Leading us to the last one, sign number five: You feel lucky.
You have been fortunate enough to meet someone to experience true love and connection. Whether it is for a day, year or the rest of your life, you feel as though this is what love stories should really be written about and that who you open and become through true love is the most authentic version of yourself.
What's not to love?
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thank you for articulating my story, I feel comforted. I feel sad still, as I look at my attachment and proud that I am courageous .
I LOVE this. It echoes my own looooooong draw out on again / on again relationship of 16 yrs with the father of my son. We have SO MUCH love for each other and sometimes think we need to let go, but cannot leave each other alone for more than 24 hrs. Too many articles these days say "if it doesn't serve you, let it go". But what isn't serving you about coming face to face with the power struggle of the ego time and time again? We MUST see our shadow if we want to move through to the other side. I say OWN your feelings and be patient for true love will wait. xxx
I totally agree about owning our feelings, no one else can tell us what it is or why feel how we do. And I have yet to meet someone who can actually let go "emotionally" when they are told to do so. Thank you Holly!
Right on – for what I thought was late in life, I learned of this type of love, it resonates for me as a love of no expectation – even the expectation that you will be with that person – to have a strong love regardless and with no jealousy – this was powerful stuff – freeing, & beautiful when allowed to rest there instead of some zone of melancholy or pining – true love is so wowza
Hi Barry~ True love is so different from fairy tale love or jumping off a bridge love. True love is kinder, gentler and already a part of each of us once we remove our ego from the equation. Thank you for your comment.
Thank you for writing this! I am currently experiencing the feelings of luck, the KNOWING in the face of UNKNOWING, the humility and need for patience….as much as the distance and bad timing hurt like hell it's still so beautiful, and the hard parts pass as funny once they are over! <3
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I sit facing down the hill (heelside down). I grab my board with my off hand (non dominant hand) and scoot my butt forward. I use my dominant hand to push myself up and pull with my other hand on the board. Perfect push/pull balance and then I just slowly slide 90 into goofy or switch. Easy and comfortable. You start to slide as you start pulling yourself up, but you get used to it after a few times. Best of luck. Edit: The main reason I do this is because I have weak wrists. I don't like to put too much pressure on them. |
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Maybe I need to work on bending my knees as much as possible when I try to get up this way. This way: * I can probably get up quicker because of a shorter fulcrum point. This means that there will be less time for the snowwboard to slide down in front of me. * My center of gravity will be lower. This means that I should be able to keep my balance better when I try to position myself over my snowboard. basso - When you say you have a nice gut - I'm not sure how this helps you get up on your snowboard easier. I have somewhat of a gut as well and I felt that my gut restricted my range of movement somewhat - best incentive ever to get in better shape . basso - When you say you flip around onto your knees and get up that way - in which direction are you pointing your knees - to the side, pointing down the hill or pointing up the hill? |
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Knees would be up the hill.
I mentioned the gut because I see people who are in better shape can sit up facing down the hill much easier than me. So I was trying to say it is harder since we have more mass to get up. |
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You don't have to dig your heel edge. you just push off with your hands behind you while you throwing your weight forward. When i'm stuck in powder on my butt i just flip my body over to my toe edge and get up.
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Hal Abelson, Eric Klopfer, Mitchel Resnick, Andrew McKinney, CSAIL and Scheller Teacher Education ProgramApp Inventor is an open-source tool that democratizes app creation. By combining LEGO-like blocks onscreen, even users with no prior programming experience can use App Inventor to create their own mobile applications. Currently, App Inventor has over 2,000,000 users and is being taught by universities, schools, and community centers worldwide. In those initiatives, students not only acquire important technology skills such as computer programming, but also have the opportunity to apply computational thinking concepts to many fields including science, health, education, business, social action, entertainment, and the arts. Work on App Inventor was initiated in Google Research by Hal Abelson and is continuing at the MIT Media Lab as part of its Center for Mobile Learning, a collaboration with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP).
Tiffany Tseng and Mitchel ResnickBuild-in-Progress is a platform for sharing the story of your design process. With Build-in-Progress, makers document as they develop their design process, incorporating iterations and failures along the way and getting feedback as they develop their projects.
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David A. Mellis and Leah BuechleyAn exploration into the possibilities for individual construction and customization of the most ubiquitous of electronic devices, the cellphone. By creating and sharing open-source designs for the phone's circuit board and case, we hope to encourage a proliferation of personalized and diverse mobile phones. Freed from the constraints of mass production, we plan to explore diverse materials, shapes, and functions. We hope that the project will help us explore and expand the limits of do-it-yourself (DIY) practice. How close can a homemade project come to the design of a cutting-edge device? What are the economics of building a high-tech device in small quantities? Which parts are even available to individual consumers? What's required for people to customize and build their own devices?
Jennifer Jacobs, Leah Buechley, and Mitchel ResnickDressCode is a computer-aided design and fabrication tool that combines programming with graphic drawing and manipulation, allowing novice programmers to create computationally-generated, physical artifacts. The software consists of a programming environment and a graphic-user interface design tool, as well as a custom programming language. The GUI tools allow for a unique combination of graphic drawing and computational manipulation, because the software automatically generates editable code in the programming environment that reflects the designer's drawing actions. DressCode exports designs that are compatible with digital fabrication machines, allowing for the creation of physical artifacts. We have introduced DressCode to amateur programmers with a series of craft activities that allow them to produce functional, beautiful, and unique objects including t-shirts, jewelry, and personal accessories.
Family Creative Learning
Ricarose Roque, Natalie Rusk, and Mitchel ResnickIn Family Creative Learning, we engage parents and children in workshops to design and learn together with creative technologies, like the Scratch programming language and the MaKey MaKey invention kit. Just as children's literacy can be supported by parents reading with them, children's creativity can be supported by parents creating with them. In these workshops, we especially target families with limited access to resources and social support around technology. By promoting participation across generations, these workshops engage parents in supporting their children in becoming creators and full participants in today's digital society.
Learning Creative Learning
Mitchel Resnick, Philipp Schmidt, Natalie Rusk, Grif Peterson, Katherine McConachie, Srishti Sethi, Alisha PanjwaniLearning Creative Learning (http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl) is an online course that introduces ideas and strategies for supporting creative learning. The course engages educators, designers, and technologists from around the world in applying creative learning tools and approaches from the MIT Media Lab. We view the course as an experimental alternative to traditional Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), putting greater emphasis on peer-to-peer learning, hands-on projects, and sustainable communities.
Learning with Data
Sayamindu Dasgupta and Mitchel ResnickMore and more computational activities revolve around collecting, accessing, and manipulating large sets of data, but introductory approaches for learning programming typically are centered around algorithmic concepts and flow of control, not around data. Computational exploration of data, especially data-sets, has been usually restricted to predefined operations in spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel. This project builds on the Scratch programming language and environment to allow children to explore data and datasets. With the extensions provided by this project, children can build Scratch programs to not only manipulate and analyze data from online sources, but also to collect data through various means such as surveys and crowd-sourcing. This toolkit will support many different types of projects like online polls, turn-based multiplayer games, crowd-sourced stories, visualizations, information widgets, and quiz-type games.
MaKey MaKey
Eric Rosenbaum, Jay Silver, and Mitchel ResnickMaKey MaKey lets you transform everyday objects into computer interfaces. Make a game pad out of Play-Doh, a musical instrument out of bananas, or any other invention you can imagine. It's a little USB device you plug into your computer, and you use it to make your own switches that act like keys on the keyboard: Make + Key = MaKey MaKey! It's plug and play. No need for any electronics or programming skills. Since MaKey MaKey looks to your computer like a regular mouse and keyboard, it's automatically compatible with any piece of software you can think of. It's great for beginners tinkering and exploring, for experts prototyping and inventing, and for everybody who wants to playfully transform their world.
Making Learning Work
J. Philipp Schmidt, Juliana Nazare, Srishti SethiImproving adult learning, especially for adults who are unemployed or unable to financially support their families, is a challenge that affects the future well-being of millions of individuals in the US. We are working with the Joyce Foundation, employers, learning researchers, and the Media Lab community to prototype three to five new models for adult learning that involve technology innovation and behavioral insights.
Making with Stories
Alisha Panjwani, Natalie Rusk, Mitchel ResnickWe are developing a set of participatory "maker" activities to engage youth in creating tangible projects that depict stories about themselves and their worlds. These activities introduce electronics and computational tools as a medium to create, connect, express, and derive meaning from personal narratives. For example, we are offering workshops where participants design sewable circuits and bring them together to create a collaborative Story Quilt. Through the Making with Stories project we are exploring how story-based pedagogy can inspire youth participation in arts and engineering within formal and informal learning environments.
Map Scratch
Sayamindu Dasgupta, Brian Silverman, and Mitchel ResnickMap Scratch is an extension of Scratch that enables kids to program with maps within their Scratch projects. With Map Scratch, kids can create interactive tours, games, and data visualizations with real-world geographical data and maps.
Media Lab Virtual Visit
Srishti Sethi and J. Philipp SchmidtMedia Lab Virtual Visit is intended to open up the doors of the Media Lab to people from all around the world. The visit is hosted on the Unhangout platform, a new way of running large-scale unconferences on the web that was developed at the Media Lab. It is an opportunity for students or potential collaborators to talk with current researchers at the Lab, learn about their work and share ideas.
Eric Rosenbaum and Mitchel ResnickMelodyMorph is an interface for constructing melodies and making improvised music. It removes a constraint of traditional musical instruments: a fixed mapping between space and pitch. What if you blew up the piano so you could put the keys anywhere you want? With MelodyMorph you can create a customized musical instrument, unique to the piece of music, the player, or the moment.
Novice Design of Interactive Products
David A. Mellis and Mitchel ResnickDespite recent widespread interest in hobbyist electronics and the maker movement, the design of printed circuit boards (PCBs) remains an obscure and often intimidating activity. This project attempts to introduce PCB design and production to new audiences by creating examples, activities, and other resources that provide context and motivation for those practices. I've developed a series of interactive lights that demonstrate the creation of useable products with simple circuits. These examples introduce novices to the space of possibilities and provide them with a starting point for creating their own designs. In workshops, novices design, produce, assemble, and program their own electronic circuits. These workshops provide an entry point to understanding the way that electronic products are made and an opportunity for discussion and reflection about how more people might get involved in their production.
Open Learning
Philipp Schmidt and Mitchel ResnickLearning for everyone, by everyone. The Open Learning project builds online learning communities that work like the web: peer-to-peer, loosely joined, open. And it works with Media Lab faculty and students to open up the magic of the Lab through online learning. Our first experiment was Learning Creative Learning, a course taught at the Media Lab, which attracted 24,000 participants. We are currently developing ideas for massive citizen science projects, engineering competitions for kids, and new physical infrastructures for learning that reclaim the library.
Jennifer Jacobs, Mitchel Resnick, Joel Brandt, and Radomir MechProcedural representations, enabled through programming, are a powerful tool for digital illustration–but writing code conflicts with the intuitiveness and immediacy of direct manipulation. Para is a digital illustration tool that uses direct manipulation to define and edit procedural artwork. Through creating and altering vector paths, artists can define iterative distributions, parametric constraints, and conditional behaviors. Para makes it easier for people to create generative artwork, and creates a intuitive workflow between manual and procedural drawing methods.
Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, Eric Schilling, Amos Blanton, Champika Fernando, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Ricarose Roque, Kasia Chmielinski, Shane Clements, Carl Bowman, Matt Taylor, Ray Schamp, Chris Willis-Ford, Brian Silverman, Paula BontaScratch Data Blocks
Sayamindu Dasgupta, Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, and Benjamin Mako HillScratch Data Blocks is an NSF-funded project that extends the Scratch programming language to enable youth to analyze and visualize their own learning and participation in the Scratch online community. With Scratch Data Blocks, youth in the Scratch community can easily access, analyze, and represent data about the ways they program, share, and discuss Scratch projects.
Scratch Day
Lisa O'Brien, Kasia Chmielinski, Carl Bowman, and Mitchel ResnickScratch Extensions
Mitchel Resnick, Marina Bers, Paula Bonta, Champika Fernando, Tim Mickel, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Brian SilvermanThe ScratchJr project brings the ideas and spirit of Scratch programming activities to younger children, enabling children ages five to seven to program their own interactive stories, games, and animations. To make ScratchJr developmentally appropriate for younger children, we are revising the interface and providing new structures to help young children learn core math concepts and problem-solving strategies. ScratchJr is now available as a free app for iPads (and will be available for Android soon). ScratchJr is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Tufts University, and Playful Invention Company.
Singing Fingers
Eric Rosenbaum, Jay Silver, and Mitchel ResnickSinging Fingers allows children to fingerpaint with sound. Users paint by touching a screen with a finger, but color only emerges if a sound is made at the same time. By touching the painting again, users can play back the sound. This creates a new level of accessibility for recording, playback, and remixing of sound.
Start Making!
Alisha Panjwani, Jennifer Jacobs, Tiffany Tseng, Jie Qi, David Mellis, Chris Garrity, Ricarose Roque, Natalie Rusk, Mitchel ResnickThe Lifelong Kindergarten group is collaborating with the Museum of Science in Boston to develop materials and workshops that engage young people in "maker" activities in Computer Clubhouses around the world, with support from Intel. The activities introduce youth to the basics of circuitry, coding, crafting, and engineering. In addition, graduate students are testing new maker technologies and workshops for Clubhouse staff and youth. The goal of the initiative is to help young people from under-served communities gain experience and confidence in their ability to design, create, and invent with new technologies.
Philipp Schmidt, Drew Harry, Charlie DeTar, and Srishti SethiUnhangout is an open-source platform for running large-scale unconferences online. We use Google Hangouts to create as many small sessions as needed, and help users find others with shared interests. Think of it as a classroom with an infinite number of breakout sessions. Each event has a landing page, which we call the lobby. When participants arrive, they can see who else is there and chat with each other. The hosts can do a video welcome and introduction that gets streamed into the lobby. Participants then break out into smaller sessions (up to 10 people per session) for in-depth conversations, peer-to-peer learning, and collaboration on projects. UnHangouts are community-based learning instead of top-down information transfer.