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Sorry I forgot to post this earlier. I have a newsletter that goes out too and sometimes forget to post both places. I do want to make sure to share this information, though. It does talk about February and I apologize:
The month of February conjures romantic images, and one tends to relish matters of the heart. This month marks the one year anniversary of our Faery Messages, and so it is a sort of homecoming. Last February was our first faery message and the faeries spoke about the heart being the ultimate 'tween place because it is where spirit and matter merge into oneness. The heart is the home of heaven on earth, as it is the meeting place of the lower and upper chakras.
The faeries explain that the heart is an important focus and so this month we shall be reminded of that through working with the breath. The breath and the heart are one. The breath connects the inner to the outer. The focus should always begin within, but we cannot forget the outer. If we were only meant to interact with the inner planes of light we would not have embodied after all. We are meant to integrate the two – oneness. When we create we should start within the heart instead of reaching outside of ourselves. This is why a God that only exists outside of us feels incomplete. We must start to come into relationship with the God within, and only then can we truly know ourselves. The faeries know this at the core of their being. They walk in this interconnected way – knowing that every aspect of themselves is connected to everything else.
The Breath is living energy that moves through all life. Through the breath we can connect our inner and outer worlds. Through the breath we can move into our hearts. The breath is manifold. It acts in many ways. It is a purification process whereby we may cleanse and clear all that no longer serves us. In this way we may create space for the light to enter in and fill us. Light activates the heart. The breath connects the inner and the outer, but it also connects us one to the other. It connects us to all of creation, for all of creation is BREATHING. We need only to breathe together. Even nonphysical beings and advanced beings breathe. They may not breathe for "air", but they breathe life force or pranic energy. The faeries breathe, and they would like us to breathe with them.
Breathwork Meditation:
Close your eyes. Begin to breathe rhythmically. Bring your attention to your heart. As you inhale see or feel the breath moving into your heart like a stream of light. As you exhale, see a stream of love-light moving out to share with the world. Continue with this process for several breaths. Your heart is breathing, and connecting you with the universe. Notice as you breathe out, the exhaled light becomes more and more concentrated until it enshrouds you like a mist. As the mist subsides you see you are in a sacred oak grove. Around you there appear to be a group of beings seated in a circle, of which you are a part. These are the faeries of this sacred grove, and they have welcomed you. Take your attention back to your heart, and to the breath that it breathes. Notice that through this breath you are connected heart to heart to each and every faery here. What's more is that you realize you are connected to every living thing within this grove through the breath – the trees, the grass, the flowers, the rocks. With intention feel yourself breathing in harmony with the faeries. Feel yourself breathing in harmony with the trees. You are all breathing, one breath, one heart. Living light. With love and gratitude the grove begins to fade. Feel yourself coming back to your space back in the chair or on the floor, wherever you began.
Through the breath, you can connect to all of life. Through the heart we are all One.


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Jan 8, 2014
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aren't taking enough precautions to ferret out fraud in electronic health record use as medical providers continue to migrate from conventional paper documents.
That's the finding from the Office of Inspector General, which said in a report issued Wednesday that the federal agency in charge of Medicare and Medicaid spending has done little to adjust their practices to weed out fraudsters from legitimate claims. The inspector general's office said that the advent of electronic records, pushed heavily by the Obama administration under the 2009 stimulus bills, has made it possible to mask true authorship of a document and to falsely inflate medical claims.
Jul 8, 2013
Health care's digital shift moving along, but will it meet deadlines?Posted By Russ Britt
Roughly 40% of doctors and 44% of hospitals had adopted a basic electronic health records system through 2012, which brings the question of whether health-care providers will be able to meet pending deadlines for dragging themselves into the digital age.
That's the finding of a study released Monday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which it conducted with the Harvard University School of Public Health and Mathematica Policy Research. While the study's authors believe it is "good progress" and that the pace of medical professionals converting to a digital system is accelerating, it's up in the air whether the health-care industry will be able to meet the ambitious goals set when the program was initiated in 2009 under the stimulus bill.
The program that was part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, or HITECH, Act is supposed to meet certain guidelines for "meaningful use" this year and in 2015. Thus far, only half of those with an electronic records system have ascended to the meaningful use platform and those who fail to meet the deadlines face cuts in Medicare reimbursements.
Mar 15, 2013
Report says health care tech conversion is lacking talentPosted By Russ Britt
A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers was making the rounds this week, and it noted companies that are helping doctors, hospitals and insurers finally make the move into the digital age were facing a severe shortage of talent.
The $30 billion, federally funded program that was part of the 2009 stimulus bill has spawned its own cottage industry, spawning a raft of start-ups eager to share in the bonanza such as Cerner Corp. /quotes/zigman/69765 /quotes/nls/cern CERN and AthenaHealth Inc. /quotes/zigman/107872 /quotes/nls/athn ATHN , along with new divisions within well-established companies like McKesson Corp. /quotes/zigman/247413 /quotes/nls/mck MCK and Siemens Inc. /quotes/zigman/279102 /quotes/nls/si SI
But the consultant's report says the anticipated shortage of 50,000 high-tech workers to help make the conversion may be even greater than expected.
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A catch up of Biter, now known as "Meat" who seems to want to live here and for 4000$ I think we earned him!! He is the one who Bit my DD but he actually is as sweet as could be!
The other picture is from our trip to Washington, DC. The Vietnam wall. If you have never been and aon go to DC, I strongly suggest it. What amazing stuff to see. We walked all over the place and my poor knees still feel it! The monuments and the sights are great. I cry as soon as my eyes lit on to the "Wall". We also went to the Holocaust museum. Words can not express how you feel.
My Dad was among the Liberation forces, he drove the General through the gate at Dachau. While he never spoke of it...ever...he did not need to. But, seeing the museum and the artifacts was very moving.
As, DD is a US History teacher, this made it even more fun. I will post a pic from the Civil War museum in Harrisburg. Another really well done museum. They had life-like models all around and it was truly amazing how real it seemed.
I have a new podcast up after a bit of an absense. I am going to focus on some books and pattens, I think and based on some knitting 'casts I have listened to, I am thinking of trying to do some interviews....any takers? I gotta fiigure out how ya' do it first!!
Happy 4th
Added note!!! Thank you to Geri for noting the podcast did not load!! Thanks also for attempting to listen...!!! Yeah!! I have re-loaded the 'cast and it is now working. If you don't see on iTunes today, it is up on podbean. I just checked iTunes and I was able to load it up so...there ya go!!
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New York, NY – The Trump administration has orchestrated a series of attacks against immigrants, so that private companies can profit further from their cheap labor while at the same time, limiting their pathways to become legal residents in the U.S. NAFCON opposes these attacks and is organizing to defend migrant workers and oppressed people resisting his administration.
On July 17, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) raised the limit for H-2B temporary work visas granted from 66,000 visas to 81,000. DHS reasoned that they lifted the caps on H-2B visas to assist businesses who could not find workers to fill available jobs.
Despite this increase in work-related, pro-business visas, Trump's campaign platform and his overarching framework for immigration reform reveals his anti-immigrant and anti-people policy objectives.
On August 2, Trump backed an immigration overhaul bill that would cut pathways for migration to the U.S. by 50% over 10 years, including: ending the visa lottery program, curbing the number of refugees offered permanent residency by less than half, and ending the green card preference to extended family of immigrants residing legally in the US.
In the meantime, legislators creating this bill have excluded temporary guest workers from the scope of the bill, clearly indicating the direction of the administration in further exploiting foreign workers, without giving them protections or benefits.
Effectively, the shift in immigration priorities exacerbates the condition of migrant workers as sources of cheap labor. Migrant workers, many of whom are Filipinos, will effectively be limited to working as cooks, cleaners, pool attendants, and receptionists in hotels and restaurants. They will have less avenues to reunite with families and gain permanent residence.
Moreover, temporary visa workers have very little power over their recruiters and employers, exposing many of them to labor trafficking. The National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) have conducted several campaigns to expose the link between temporary visa workers and trafficking, successfully defending the rights of the Sentosa 27++, the Florida 15, the GIS Filipino oil rig workers, hotel workers, bakery workers, teachers, domestic workers and so many others.
The administration seems keen on expanding immigration programs that are known to be breeding grounds for trafficking while curtailing the ability of people to assert their rights and defend themselves against that exploitation.
The legislative branch has been able to pass some reforms that are supportive of migrants rights, such as the reauthorization of the Trafficked Victims Protection Act. However, such reforms are modest and do not address the fundamental problems of migration: the exploitation of migrant workers through temporary visas and the pressure that big business places on countries of origin like the Philippines to keep the people poor, jobless, landless, and migrating.
Gary Labao, Program Coordinator of Mission to End Modern Slavery (MEMS), says that "the TVPA overemphasizes sex trafficking instead of all forms of labor trafficking. There has been no effort to raise the cap on T-Visas despite the increase on temporary work visas. Migrant workers are at higher risk of trafficking through the temporary work visa program. The Department of State has yet to focus on labor rights, perpetuating the lack of awareness about human trafficking and the overall system that preserves it. Traffickers continue to escape prosecution and accountability under this law."
Although NAFCON welcomes further reforms to immigration policy, more must be done to ensure that the rights of migrant workers are protected. The welfare of migrant workers and oppressed people should not depend on who the 1% thinks is deserving of its protection.
Zarah Vinola, NAFCON Secretary of Campaigns, declares, "NAFCON opposes a policy of economic development that rips families apart while allowing big business to obtain slave labor, in the form of the temporary guest worker program. NAFCON has long recognized that, for developing nations, the model of development by labor export is no solution to poverty. The Philippines can build a self-sustaining economy, freed from exploitative foreign trade policies to provide real solutions to the root causes of the problems of forced migration and trafficking."
She also relates that, "meanwhile, workers in the U.S. can unite on resisting fascist attacks on workers, and clamor for taxpayer money to be spent for the people, not on occupations overseas. While corporations have enjoyed bailouts, workers in the U.S. have had to contend with rising cost of living, underemployment or unemployment, and seeing education, social and health services become privatized."
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So you all know how much I love carousel rubber stamps.. anyways this was the birthday card I made for Dejah (the owner). She has been so inspiring to me with all her little demos, tricks, tips and classes. I love how all the staff are so knowledgeable and you can go in there ask a question and get an answer and often even a demonstration on how to do it.. or they will pull some product to try it out for you if they're not really sure. LOVE IT!!
Anyways, this card was made kissing two large stamps together in different shades. The butterflies are actually cornflowers with the stem and the center of the flower cut off stamped on acetate and then stuck on using some viva decor... I had to prop the butterfly wings up until it dried but was happy with how it turned out.


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As I told you in my previous update:
I will be getting weighed after 10 days in order to get right back on track!
These 10 days, I'm afraid I was kind of naughty. I missed certain foods, didn't have much time or energy to prepare my meals and to top it all off I had a wedding this weekend!
Although I have moderated what I eat, I still feel guilty about not sticking with the diet (and for taking some sweets). Apart from the fact that last time I lost the weight, it was mainly due to the drip!
These 10 days, especially this past week, was extremely hard for me to prepare my food, first of all, I was exhausted all the time, I have been so busy, that the time I had for preparing food was either spent sleeping or relaxing.
Anyways, let's check out the choices I had when I had a little energy to experiment with food!
|Egg Sandwich and Tea- Yums
|Yummy Meat
|Barley Tuna Salad
|Pasta Day- Balsamic Chicken
|Who said sandwiches are boring?
|My Hubby's experiment for me for my Dad's birthday meal
|'Tis the Season for Grapes!
|Dinner at the Hubs
|My Favourite experiment to date! Healthy Stir Fry Barley & Chicken with peas and eggs
|Barley Tuna and Egg Salad
So let's see how I did these 10 days!
Why hello there, nice round figure!!!
Yes, I have lost weight it appears! I was quite surprised that although I sinned a little, I still lost the same amount of weight I usually lose in 2 weeks!!! To top it all off, I'm down 8.75 kg already!!!
I know last time I didn't tell you my target weight, however, today Marika told me how happy she is with my progress and has officially told me I am half way there!!
I also had a little heart to heart with Marika about my tiredness and motivation. She suggested I try to eat more red meat since I might not have enough Iron intake.
Also, I have been receiving a lot of nice compliments about my weight loss, since I am currently at a stage were I really look like I have lost a lot of weight and a lot of people are noticing it. Marika warned me that I might get too excited and maybe shut an eye.
To be honest, I have done that and have admitted it to her openly. Marika gave me this really good tip to help me out... Since I'm still not 100% happy with my weight, I have to always bear in mind that I have a target which I want to reach, so I have to stay positive and cheer myself on to reach that target!
I want to thank you all for your support throughout this journey, you have no idea how much all of you help me with your comments and support and I hope that I am helping you with your weight loss journey! Remember, I am always an email, comment, message away, so if you need any tips, help, support or just someone to talk to, I am always available!
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Journalists in Colorado have a really hard, hard religion-related story on their hands. At the heart of it is the question of what to do when you are dealing with inflammatory, even terrifying quotations and they are, to pour gasoline on the fire, second-hand quotes. What am I talking about? Here is the top of the main Rocky Mountain News report. We'll get to the religion hook in a moment.
NEDERLAND -- Authorities believe the gunman who killed the general manager at Eldora Mountain Resort Tuesday morning also killed his cat before embarking on a deadly rampage.
The gunman, Derik A. Bonestroo, 24, of Nederland, died during a standoff with a sheriff's deputy on a scenic highway several miles away not long after the shooting at Eldora.
OK, that sets the scene. Here's the hot stuff.
Bonestroo, who was not well-known in the laid-back mountain community and had worked only this season as a lift operator, fired a bullet into the ceiling of the resort's locker room after saying something along the lines of: "I'm a Christian and if you're not a Christian I'm here to convert you."
... Bonestroo asked resort manager Brian Mahon about his own beliefs. Mahon told the gunman he was Catholic before being shot to death. ... Witnesses told conflicting accounts about what Bonestroo's exact words were.
Well now, "something along the lines of" is an interesting phrase.
This is one of those cases, I think, where you simply have to let the readers see the conflicting quotations for themselves. The defining quote begs for more information, to say the least: "I'm a Christian and if you're not a Christian I'm here to convert you."
This is not a common form of evangelism, to say the least, in the modern church. But if this is what the man said -- and the hellish content of the fatal face-off with Mahon seems clear enough -- then that's what the story needs to say. But you have to keeping ask: What did Bonestroo actually say?
The next hard question flows out of that: Why did he say it? Boulder Sheriff Cmdr. Phil West and other quoted authorities may, literally, not have a clue about that. I also know that this kind of detail is hard to find on deadline. So what could reporters look for?
In the follow-up reports, it's pretty clear that people still don't know. Unless I have missed something (since I am still on the road, far from my office and a steady dose of wifi), it does not seem like the gunman was a pioneer in some form of strange, violent form of evangelism.
Frankly, it sounds like he was struggling with anger, anxiety and mental illness. Later in the story, readers are told that Bonestroo had been "experiencing some emotional crisis," but details of that part of the investigation were not made public. Here's another section of the basic story:
The trouble apparently started in town a little before 7 a.m. when Cynthia Davis, an employee at the local newspaper, the Nederland Mountain Ear, awakened to someone pounding on her front door. After Davis answered, she was confronted by a tall, slender man with a pistol strapped to his right thigh and dressed in black.
The man, whom Davis described as "very agitated and angry," was looking for some former neighbors of hers who worked at the ski area. ...
Five miles west of town, at the Eldora ski area, lift operators trickled into the locker room in the pump house near the base for their regular morning meeting. Outside, bitter winds howled through the valleys.
Shortly after 7 a.m., between 15 and 20 workers were in the room when Bonestroo entered. Rob Linde, spokesman for the resort, said the man was a lift operator who had been hired for this ski season.
Bonestroo spewed something religious -- a statement that was heard differently by witnesses.
"There are various interpretations of what was said," Cmdr. West said.
Meanwhile, a sidebar reached for yet another religious image in its lede:
The Derik Bonestroo who came to Eldora Mountain Resort on Tuesday morning packing a gun is as much a mystery to his old friends as are the demons propelling him to a violent end.
They couldn't relate to the ski-lift operator who declared his intent to convert non-Christians then gunned down the resort's popular general manager.
This leads to a very sad and familiar story about the shy, smart, nice guy who, for some unknown reason, had turned to violence. A friend of the young gunman named Brent Hammans later offers a crucial quote in this section of the sidebar:
At a community meeting Tuesday evening, Sheriff Joe Pelle said that Bonestroo's mental health had deteriorated in recent days and that he had become "fixated with religion," according to the Longmont Times-Call. That stunned his old friends, who don't recall Bonestroo being particularly religious.
"I don't remember hearing about any religion from him," Hammans said.
So here is a question for the journalists who are, I hope, still working on follow stories: If the gunman was driven by religion, where did he go to church? Where did he get his rather unorthodox religious views, if they drove this crime? Was he really, as the stories seem to say, a killer Christian?
These are hard questions to answer on deadline. However, I am sure that readers would be interested in knowing some answers in later reports.


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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
GazoPa Book Video
There is no search by upload, search by drawing at GazoPa Book, although these features are very popular at GazoPa.com. So GazoPa Book is not suitable to search for a specific photo. But I think GazoPa Book can be acceptable by users who like to wander on the web in order to encounter nice photos. Honestly, we like this app and we spend quite a few time to wander the sea of photos. The heaviest user of this app may be the GazoPa team.
Yes, not a few users want to search for a specific photos inside facebook, so please give us your feedback about our GazoPa Book.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Update of GazoPa book
We released two new features to our facebook apps, GazoPa book, that make browsing images much easier and fun. One is the feature that enables users to see other user's images easily. Click ''s other photos' next to small thumbnails. Images similar to other user's profile and albums can be displayed.
The other is a 'shuffle' feature. Click 'shuffle' at the top right corner of GazoPa book. Other user's profile and albums can be displayed at random. You can start to search similar images to click ''s other photos'. In addition, when you access to Gazopa book, five images from other users can be displayed at random. This helps users to encounter other users that have your favorite images.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Three months has passed since our launch.
Three months has passed since our launch. We released several new features as follows.
Thank you for all the feedbacks from users. Since we have many tasks in our to-do list,some valuable suggestions have not been realized yet. We're doing our best to improve our features, please be patient.
We participated in two events at UC Berkeley, one is play media conference and the other is the Startup Fair.
Some media wrote articles about us.
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Thank you again for all of your support. We're advancing steadily to make the world better.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Update to facebook application, GazoPa Book
We just updated our Facebook application, GazoPa Book. Now you can search for similar images at your facebook network. So similar images from both facebook network and web are displayed as search results. The more people use this app, the more wonderful results can be come out. Please invite your friends to this app. But don't worry, results are displayed based on photo privacy policy that are previously set. i.e. If you set your photo privacy policy as shown to everyone,these photos can be searched by other users. If you set it as limited to friend, the results will be shown to your friends only.
Since we just released this feature, searchable images at facebook is limited. So be patient and invite your friends!


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Did you know that what the Bible refers to as "hyssop" is oregano? And that oregano is exceptionally good for your health?
This week I watched a short YouTube series put online by Kevin Gianni who attended a retreat where Dr. Cass Ingram was the speaker. The retreat was held at God's Lake in northern Manitoba. Go Canada!! Yesterday's video was about How to Find and Harvest Chaga Mushrooms and today's was on Wild Foods and Herbs for Healing. Kevin filmed their jaunts through the woods as they hunted down these things. I thought you might find them interesting and useful, especially if you live in Canada.
Disclaimer: I do not agree 100% with anyone or any website even if I do recommend something on it. Preparedness requires gleaning useful information wherever it is available.
Oregano can be purchased through Paul Nisons Raw Life online store. Check it out!


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I apologize that I haven't posted. I forgot my blog password. An easy thing for most people .... but I happen to be the only person in the world without a cell phone. That makes it difficult to have a password re-set. I just have to wait until I finally remember and the password pops into my head (after about a million tries!!)
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I wrote last Friday that gold was approaching a key inflection point, as it was forming a triangle and its apex was near complete. Although it appeared as if there was slight positive divergences occurring in the RSI and MACD, I concluded by writing, "As is always the case, price will ultimately shape my opinion." And as you can see with the hourly futures chart below, price has spoken and it's quite bearish.
Source: Finviz.com
Source: Finviz.com
The weekly chart of gold is something to see as it has played out in near-classic technical analysis fashion:
Source: Finviz.com
On April 23rd, I posted an entry entitled, "Is Gold Following Expected Inflation," and showed gold's relationship to expected inflation as represented by the 5yr5yr forward breakeven rate. There appeared to be a high correlation between the two and I wrote then, "Judging from history, as long as this 5yr5yr inflation trend remains down or declining, it's not good for gold."
As you can see in the chart below, and undoubtedly much to Bernanke's dismay, the trend for expected inflation has remained down.
Source: Bloomberg
I have to think Bernanke is keeping a close eye on this 5yr5yr inflation chart, definitely preferring that expected inflation reverts back to the 3% level -- which would be bullish for gold. But -- and it's a big "but" -- expected inflation had been declining since late January in conjunction with Fed balance sheet expansion going through the roof. Question: can the Fed do enough to get expected inflation back to the 3% level, or is it pushing on a string?Here's the current chart for the Fed's balance sheet:
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I'm quite fortunate to be part of a couple of thriving indie game development communities. Although we don't always agree, I've always enjoyed chatting with people that are as passionate as I am about our craft. As it happens, they are coordinating a game development contest, and I'm feeling like joining them, just for kicks. After all, there's not much on TV during the holidays.
#AssetGameChallenge is the name of the event, and "Doomsday for a Spider Nest" is the name of my entry. This will be my first attempt to create and publish a 2D game using C++ and my own engine, so I feel I'm going to be at a disadvantage. It's all right, though, as it will be fun, no matter if I finish on time or not – let alone if I get good feedback, or not.
It's going to be a shooter game, to be played best with a touch screen. I really want to use my HP Stream 7 tablet for this project. It will have one scene only, though, as there is not much time to do anything else. More than a game, it is going to be like a performance benchmark tool, exploiting as much as I can from particle systems. I'm inclined to believe that will give me some advantage against managed classes… then again, I'm not quite good at coding, so, let's see what performance I can get.
The contest has a prior phase about the publication of an "asset". I don't have a membership of any asset store, so I don't think I'll be able to participate in that phase. That's quite fine, though, as the game entry itself will consume most of my free time.
So, to recapitulate, this webpage states the start of a new project, and the check list stands as follows:
- Announce the entry,
- Set the expectation, and
- Put it back to the icebox while I finish porting my Third-Person Shooter as a Universal Windows Platform game.
Here is the link to the contest


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Weekend Wanderings…Friday, October 30th, 2015
Admittedly Halloween is my favorite holiday and the concept of El Dia De Los Muertos is an occasion I never knew about, having been raised in Connecticut. To conscientiously remember those in life who have died and commemorate them is such a nice tradition. Families and friends will spread picnics of foods and drink enjoyed by the deceased as well as music and mementos at local cemeteries. And in homes, altars will be built to those who have died in remembrance.
Especially for those who do not know about El Dia De Los Muertos, various venues about town will commemorate the day with exhibitions, art work, and altars and include Banda Calaca, a band of "musicians" marching to Altar, which is a community memorial altar in conjunction with the Tucson Museum of Art. Tohono Chul Park will have an exhibition of art work and All Souls Procession will put the finishing touches on the All Souls Procession which takes place the following week.
Congress Street will be the site of the costume contest parade and in a different event, children can trick or treat along Fourth Avenue, venue for a Spooky Kids Costume Contest at 6 pm October 30. Trunk or Treat will be at 604 North 6th Avenue October 31 and will be the site of carnival games, a kids train, petting zoo, music and more.
Nightfall at Old Tucson is designed to scare adults and children alike with ghosts and goblins darting about and appearing as if from no place. Haunted Histories of Tucson will delight those who like macabre history October 31 at Fort Lowell Park, by the Arizona Historical Society. And for those who want to go to the deep dark caves, Howl at the Cave is taking place October 30 and 31 at Colossal Cave
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For a complete list of what is happening this weekend, visit www.visittucson.org and check the calendar. Then go out and have a howling good time!


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Best Picture Nomination Oscar Treats
An update to our kid-friendly Oscar Party
Last year, we came up with a pretty good plan for hosting a kid-friendly Oscar party, if we do say so ourselves. The host has changed, the movies obviously are new, but for the most part, same ol' Oscar party. Don't forget to point out to your kids that the host, Billy Crystal, is actually Miracle Max in disguise. So play red carpet fashion show, make some classic popcorn boxes and let's think about some best picture homages, in snack form.
Going through the list, we feel we should tell you that our first instinct for like half of the best picture nominations was croissants, but we've tried to branch out a bit from buttery pastries.
The only really kid-friendly best picture nom is Hugo, so we'll start with that. Is War Horse kid-friendly? It's based on a children's book but we haven't seen it yet.
Hugo: A sweet story about an orphan who lives in train station, works on his dad's automaton and eventually finds a friend with a connection to the automaton. Since they're in France, and, well, Hugo does steal some pastries throughout the course of the movie, but then the movie itself turns into a [SPOILER DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT] love letter to early film-making. We think popcorn is the ideal treat to honour Hugo. It's a truly lovely film.
The Artist: Another movie about silent movies! Since the film is French, we also felt the mighty croissant was a worthy choice, but we're saving that for later. Do your kids know about movies before colour? Teach them that sometimes colour isn't needed to get your point across with a black and white cookie. Oreos, a Factor-Favourite, could stand in for the New York style black and white cookie if need be.
The Descendants: A dad in Hawaii has to do a little more hands-on parenting that he's used to since his wife is in a coma. We'd like to play this one real simple and just suggest you cut up some fresh pineapple, but you probably want more than that. How about mini Hawaiian pizzas? A pulled-pork sandwich with sweet and tangy pineapple barbeque sauce? And for the very adventurous, we suggest you try DIY spam sushi. We're not that daring though. To add a little bit of Hawaii to such Southern comfort food as pulled pork, cook your pork roast in the slow cooker. Add a can of pineapple tidbits to your favourite sweet and sour barbecue sauce and let the meat soak up all those pineappley juices. Or, you know, just serve mai-tais.
War Horse: No, we're not doing our food-pairing suggestion based on something so literal as the title. Since the movie takes place during the First World War, we have yet another opportunity to use Spam! Or was that the Second World War… Anyway, the story, and the horse, start out in Devon, England so even if the English soldiers in the First World War didn't get a whole lot to eat, that's no reason for you not to have a little Devonshire Cream. With scones, obviously.
Tree of Life: A middle-aged man's recollections of his family, growing up in Texas in the 1950s. We here at Bunch believe that broccoli, though relatively small for a tree, could just be the Tree of Life. Option 1: Cut up some raw broccoli and serve with ranch dressing. Option 2: We hear they like beef in Texas, so how about some hamburgers? Slider-form works best for parties.
The Help: Did you see this one? How bad did you want to try Minny's fried chicken? She says fried okra is her favourite and we'd 100 percent be up for trying that too. You're probably better getting take-out for the chicken, but by all means, put a good dollop of Crisco in the pan and shake up that chicken and flour and seasoning. This would be the right time to indulge in a Coca-Cola. We'll pass on the pie, thanks.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A young boy wanders all over New York City hoping for some sort of message from his deceased father. We're guessing he passed more than a couple diners that serve excellent cheesecake while on his weekly journeys. Also, we didn't think this party had enough dessert.
Midnight in Paris: This is the croissant movie. Even if we can't recall anyone in the movie actually eating one. That's option 1. Option 2, which is actually a little more appropriate and party-friendly, is a cheese plate to go along with some great French wine. Did you know that Paul is an expert in French wine? And don't scrimp on the cheese; get some nice brie and roquefort or something. You know what they say, cheap is cheap.
Moneyball: For this baseball movie, the obvious choice is hotdogs. And while we have nothing against a good hotdog, maybe we should focus more on the money aspect of the film? Do you remember money cake where the birthday kid's parents had wrapped up loonies or twoonies in wax paper and stuck them in the batter? Try this with cupcakes! Or, just garnish cupcakes with Hanukkah gelt.
OK friends! Good luck on your Oscar pools and we'll regroup on Monday to chat dresses and who was robbed and so on.
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Gingerbread men (and women) are one of my favourite things to make at Christmas time!! I'm usually dancing around to Michael Bublé's Christmas album while making them and the smell of them baking fills the whole house. It really gets me in the Christmassy mood!!
After many, many, many batches (my oven only has one shelf!), I dipped their hands and feet in melted chocolate and gave them jelly tot buttons. The poor guys were faceless this time as I ran out of chocolate.
I made this batch for my class as a little Christmas pressie. We've been reading the story of the Gingerbread Man so they were all running round the classroom with their gingerbread men saying 'Run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man!'
(makes 30 medium sized Gingerbread Men)
(adapted from Odlums)
250g plain flour
75g butter, softened
75g brown sugar
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
50g golden syrup
2 medium egg yolks
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add bicarb, golden syrup and egg yolks and stir well. Sift the flour and spices into the bowl and mix until well combined. Shape into a ball and knead lightly on a work surface until smooth. Wrap and chill for about 30 minutes before using. Preheat oven to 180ºC and line baking trays with parchment paper. Thinly roll out dough and use gingerbread cutters to cut out shapes. Place on baking sheets, leaving a space between each. Bake for about 8 minutes until slightly risen and golden in colour. Transfer to a wire tray to cool.
You will also need:
100g chocolate
Jelly tots
Melt chocolate in the microwave. Quickly dip in all hands and feet. Dip each jelly tot into the chocolate and add to the Gingerbread Men as buttons.


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Horn Elementary School
A key Low-Impact Design feature and hallmark element includes the extensive landscaped bioswale that winds around the entire site. The bioswale keeps rainwater on the site longer, allowing maximum absorption into the soil, reducing the potential for local flooding, and filtering the runoff water, thereby reducing the amount of suspended solids and contaminants frequently washed directly out of parking areas into the region's storm water system. During SD, the bioswale system was modeled in comparison to a conventional drainage and detention system and found to be a 10% cost savings over a conventional rainwater detention system.
Careful planning and site utilization eliminated the need for temporary classroom buildings during construction, reducing cost and disruption to the students and faculty. The existing ball fields were used as the phasing and construction area, while the existing school continued operating normally. Upon completion of construction, the post-war temporary buildings that had been more permanent fixtures at the school were removed to recreate the ball fields.
Multiple unique stakeholders and end users of this facility – including HISD, The City of Bellaire Parks Department, Horn Elementary's PTO, the local Little League and neighborhood residents – created a complex opportunity for creative, yet delicate, planning. All needs combined in the completed design to create a learning environment that performs at a higher level than a typical HISD school. All classrooms exceed HISD standards for use of natural light. Water conserving plumbing fixtures and energy efficient lighting reduce the school's consumption of resources. Low and No-VOC materials and finishes provide a healthful learning environment for children. FSC Certified wood ensures that building materials have been sustainably harvested.
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I've had mixed feelings about some engineering curricula designed for the under-12 set. There are an awful lot of lesson plans available on-line that have big ideas (space exploration, zero-gravity adaptation) and big words (ecliptic, aphelion) but when you get right down to it, the students aren't building space suits or improving solar panels; they're measuring evaporation in a tin pan (I made this example up to protect the hard-working institutions that also sometimes turn out great materials). Besides the feeling of "bait and switch," this is also disappointing because it fails to help students or teachers make sense of what engineering is, and why it's not the same as science.
So I was intrigued to find a link to Engineering is Elementary recommended by Mark Guzdial in response to the post "Teaching Engineering Thinking" at Gas Station Without Pumps. The contexts are smaller (design an alarm circuit, design a bridge) but in those lessons, students are going to design and build and alarm circuit or a bridge. They're also going to assess their creations and improve them based on the assessment. The language is simple and every lesson's title start with "Designing a …", except the ones that start with "Making a …" or "Improving a …". There's a table-top mag-lev system in there. I don't know anything about these products — cost or effectiveness or ease of use. But when some projects for elementary school students make me think "Oh, I want to do that one," it makes me curious.
If you've used them, what are they like? Could I use them with a Brownie troop (6-8 year olds)? Could I use them for my adult students when we need something light as a break? If you try them out, please let me know how it goes.
I just received a notice from the American Society for Engineering Education about a free online PD project for faculty who teach introductory engineering science. It's called Advancing Engineering Education Through Virtual Communities of Practice, and they've just extended the application deadline to Feb. 8. Participants can choose from these topics:
- Electric circuits
- Mechanics
- Thermodynamics
- Mass & energy balance
I can't tell if you have to be a member of an engineering department, or if it's enough to teach one of these topics; I can't even tell if you have to be American. In any case, I applied. From what I can tell, accepted applicants participate in once-weekly online meetings with facilitators who have experience with "research-based instructional approaches" (though they don't tell you which ones, except for references to "Outcome-Based Education" — which I think of as an assessment approach, not exactly an instructional approach).
I suppose I should be concerned about the lack of details on the website (even the application deadline on the front page hasn't been changed to reflect the extension), but I'm chalking it up to this being the prototype run, and anyway, the price is right. The informed consent form makes it clear that this is a research project to explore the viability of the model, which is fine by me. It'll be worth it if it leads to any of these things:
- Working on instructional changes in a systematic way (rather than the somewhat haphazard and occasionally accidental way I've been doing it so far)
- Focusing on the specific ways particular instructional approaches play out in circuits courses, not to mention deepening my content knowledge
- Having a consistent group to work with over the course of 6 months (and two different academic years).
It seems to bring together the advantages of something like the Global Physics Department, with the bonus that every meeting will be about exactly what I teach, and the meeting time will be a part of my scheduled workday.
The email I received from the ASEE contains details that are not available on the website, so I'm including it below.
NSF-funded project to develop engineering faculty virtual communities of practice
Engineering education research has shown that many research-based instructional approaches improve student learning but these have not diffused widely because faculty members find it difficult to acquire the required knowledge and skills by themselves and then sustain the on-going implementation efforts without continued encouragement and support.
ASEE with a grant from NSF is organizing several web-based faculty communities that will work to develop the group's understanding of research-based instructional approaches and then support individual members as they implement self-selected new approaches in their classes. Participants should be open to this new technology-based approach and see themselves as innovators in a new approach to professional development and continuous improvement.
The material below and the project website provide more information about these communities and the application process. Questions should be addressed to Rocio Chavela at email@example.com.
If you are interested in learning about effective teaching approaches and working with experienced mentors and collaborating colleagues as you begin using these in your classroom, you are encouraged to apply to this program. If you know of others that may be interested, please share this message with them.
Please consider applying for this program and encouraging potentially interested colleagues to apply. Applications are due by February 8, 2013.
Additional Details About the Program
Faculty groups, which will effectively become virtual communities of practice (VCP) with 20 to 30 members, will meet weekly at a scheduled time using virtual meeting software during the second half of the Spring 2013 Semester and during the entire Fall 2013 Semester. Each group will be led by two individuals that have implemented research-based approaches for improving student learning, have acquired a reputation for innovation and leadership in their course area, and have completed a series of training sessions to prepare them to lead the virtual communities. Since participants will be expected to begin utilizing some of the new approaches with the help and encouragement of the virtual group, they should be committed to teaching a course in the targeted area during the Fall 2013 Semester.
VCP Topics and Meeting Times
This year's efforts are focusing on the introductory engineering science courses and the list below shows the course areas along with the co-leaders and the scheduled times for each virtual community:
Electric Circuits
Co-leaders are Lisa Huettel and Kenneth Connor
Meeting time is Thursday at 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. EST starting March 21, 2013 and running until May 16, 2013
Engineering Mechanics
Co-leaders are Brian Self and Edward Berger
Meeting time is Thursday at 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. EST starting April 3, 2013 and running until May 16, 2013
Co-leaders are John Chen and Milo Koretsky
Meeting time is Wednesday at 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. EST starting April 3, 2013 and running until May 23, 2013
Mass and Energy Balance
Co-leaders are Lisa Bullard and Richard Zollars
Meeting time is Thursday at 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. EST starting March 21, 2013 and running until May 16, 2013
Application Process
Interested individuals should complete the on-line application at https://www.research.net/s/asee-vcp_application_form. The application form asks individuals to describe their experience with introductory engineering science courses, to indicate their involvement in education research and development activities, to summarize any classroom experiences where they have tried something different in their classes, and to discuss their reasons for wanting to participate in the VCP.
The applicant's Department Head or Dean needs to complete an on-line recommendation form to indicate plans for having the applicant teach the selected courses in the Fall 2013 Semester and to briefly discuss why participating in the VCP will be important to the applicant.
Since demonstrating that the VCP approach will benefit relatively inexperienced faculty, applicants do not need a substantial record of involvement in education research and development. For this reason, the applicant's and the Department Head's or Dean's statements about the reasons for participating will be particularly important in selecting participants.
Application Deadline
Applications are due by February 8, 2013. The project team will review all applications and select a set of participants that are diverse in their experience, institutional setting, gender, and ethnicity.
I've just agreed to be the head judge for a LEGO robot competition for high school students. In light of my workload this year, that probably means I have lost my marbles. However, I couldn't resist. I judged last year and found it extremely interesting. I'm looking forward to meeting others in the province who love the combination of kids and robots, working with the judges to develop a consistent way to score teams' performance, and just getting off campus more. Of course, if I ended up recruiting kids into my program, that wouldn't be so bad either).
Acadia University hosts the local FIRST LEGO League competition for 9-14 year olds, which is co-ordinated internationally. Four years ago, they decided to run an independent high-school competition so that kids who had aged out of FIRST could continue to compete. To see the details, go to the competition page and click on High School Robotics.
My responsibilities are
- defining the challenges (this needs to happen ASAP)
- getting the word out about the competition, which is in February
- answering questions from school teams about the competition and the challenges
- helping with orientation for the judging team
The teams borrow or buy a robot kit and get three challenges to complete — things like moving pop cans, dropping balls into containers, detecting and navigating around obstacles, etc. The teams get two runs through the course, with time in between the runs to make changes to their robots.
How Teams Are Evaluated
- An interview with two judges before their robot runs the course. They have to explain their code, demonstrate their robot, and answer questions about their process
- An interview between the two runs. They have to explain what went well, what didn't go well, and how they are going to improve.
Things I Noticed Last Year
- The teams tended to be well balanced — either the students were all able to explain each aspect of the robot, or each student was able to explain one aspect in detail. There was the occasional student who didn't seem to be as involved, but not many.
- The coaches varied widely in their degree of involvement. There were some programs that I was pretty sure the teams wouldn't have come up with on their own, but they seemed able to explain the logic.
- Almost all the robots performed poorly on the competition field, with many of the planned features not working. This surprised me, since organizers publish the exact dimensions and features of the competition field months in advance. Surely if the design was not meeting the requirements, the students knew that in advance…
- Some teams were able to articulate what exactly was not working after their first run (for example, the robot ran into the wall and then couldn't turn around), and some teams were not.
- Regardless of their ability to diagnose the problem, most teams were not able to troubleshoot in a logical way. The changes they proposed to improve for their second run often addressed an unrelated component — for example, if their robot had incorrectly identified the difference between white and black cans, they might propose to change the motor speed.
For those of you who've participated in robotics or similar competition, any suggestions? I'm especially interested in these questions:
- What helps new teams get involved?
- What features of the challenges can help kids think independently and algorithmically?
- What practices in the design or judging can promote more causal thinking?
The author of Gas Station Without Pumps has posted this thought-provoking list of technician-level skills every engineer should have:
- Reading voltage, current, and resistance with a multimeter.
- Using an oscilloscope to view time-varying signals:
- Matching scope probe to input of scope.
- Adjusting time-base.
- Adjusting voltage scale.
- Using triggering.
- Reading approximate frequency from display.
- Measuring time (either pulse width or time between edges on different channels)
- Using a bench power supply.
- Using a signal generator to generate sine waves and square waves. Hmm, only the salinity conductance meter uses an AC signal so far—I may have to think of some other project-like labs that need the signal generator. Perhaps we should have them do some capacitance measurements with a bridge circuit before building a capacitance touch sensor.
- Using a microprocessor with A/D conversion to record data from sensors.
- Handling ICs without frying them through static electricity.
- Using a breadboard to prototype circuits.
- Soldering through-hole components to a PC board. (I think that surface-mount components are beyond the scope of the class, and freeform soldering without a board is too "arty" for an engineering class.)
I really like this course-design approach, and I think it will yield a very interesting, engaging course.
I started thinking out loud about the kinds of conceptual difficulties I've noticed and assessments I use. When I realized it was turning into yet anther one of my marathon comments, I thought I'd open up the conversation over here.
1. Using a Multimeter
When teaching students how to use meters, I've found it interesting and conceptually useful for them to use their meters to measure other meters. For example, use the ohmmeter to measure the input resistance of the voltmeter, or use the ammeter to measure the output current of the diode checking function. It gets students thinking about what the meters do, helps them get a sense for the differences between meters (especially if you have a number of makes and models available), and can help them build their judgement about when, for example, a current-sense resistor's contribution to a series circuit can no longer be ignored.
It makes for useful test questions as well: draw a meter measuring another meter, and have students justify their predictions of what each meter will read.
2. Using an Oscilloscope
The trigger function is difficult for a lot of my students to make sense of. This becomes evident when they make a measurement on channel 1, then make another measurement on channel 1, then infer the phase relationship between two signals that were not measured simultaneously. This also makes a useful test question — describe this scenatio, and ask students to explain specifically why the conclusion is not valid.
I'll also be curious to know if the students are able to relate the techniques for vector addition to the reality of phase shift in the time domain, including the apparently illogical concept that in a series RC circuit, the resistor's voltage can lead the supply's. (Where did the resistor get that voltage before the supply turned on? would be the type of frustrated question my students would be upset about.) Although introducing the concept of start-up transients seems like it should increase cognitive load, I find that my students welcome it as a way to resolve this apparent contradiction. This is easier, of course, if you have storage scopes or (better yet) simulation software.
In case it's useful to anyone to have an electronic copy of an "oscilloscope grid" (for including in test questions, etc.), here's one I made. (Whoops, upload problems. Will add it here as soon as the upload succeeds).
When we start making a lot of use of the oscilloscope, that's when the headaches start to flare up about "what ground is exactly, anyway." Lots of fruitful discussions are possible; what does the scope's ground clip mean if the the scope is plugged into an isolation transformer? (Note, some isolation transformers isolate the grounding conductor, others don't.) What happens when two probes have their ground clips in different places? (This is another favourite test question of mine: what is the voltage across component X, where X is shorted out by scope ground clips).
What does AC coupling do, exactly? Why would you use it — why not just adjust the volts per division? Asking them to measure the magnitude of the ripple on a DC supply can help them make sense of this. My students also often have trouble being confident of the difference between moving the display level on the scope and adding DC offset on the signal generator.
3. Using a Bench Power Supply
This is fairly straightforward, except for current limiting (especially on a supply where the current limit knob is not graduated, or maybe even labelled in any way). I find it useful for students to be able to choose a replacement fuse (and shop for it on a supplier's website). This apparently simple procedure can help students grapple with the meaning of the distinction between voltage and current. For beginners, it is counter-intuitive to imagine that there is voltage across an open fuse, even though there is no current.
4. Using a Signal Generator
Measuring things in a bridge circuit is another conceptually useful experience; I use it to motivate Thevenin's theorem, since a bridge circuit has no components in series nor in parallel, making it resistant to simple circuit-solving strategies.
Other uses of a signal generator: if applicable, you could have your students perform a frequency sweep of something. This can yield interesting insights, like noticing that, due to stray capacitance, high-pass filters are actually band-pass filters.
8. Soldering
Soldering well, and accurately inspecting soldering, are great skills to have. Surface-mount components might not be out of the question; if you want to introduce them, it's not much harder to solder a 1206 chip resistor than a through-hole component, and can reasonably be done with a regular iron. Knowing the difference between lead and lead-free solder might be useful too, especially as it relates to reliability and disposability.
I go back and forth about using perf-board. On one hand it's great for cheap soldering practice. On the other hand, the lack of solder mask makes it very difficult for beginners to make tidy joints, with solder running down the lengths of the traces.
I'll probably keep using this post as a catalogue of common difficulties. If anyone can think of others (or has suggestions of other technician-level skills that engineers should have), I'd be curious to hear them.
[Update, June 6, 2012: Want to try making play-doh circuits at home? Read the Squishy Circuits official site first!]
I don't remember who pointed me to this TED talk about making working circuits with play-dough, but I found the idea compelling. When a local Brownie troop called my school and asked if the girls could visit the campus to learn about one of our trades programs, it seemed like a good fit for this activity. I figured I had found an opportunity to do something fun and expose some kids to what's available at a trades/tech school. I didn't anticipate that by the end of the evening, 20 kids would be jumping up and down with excitement, proclaiming the incredible coolness of building electronics, refusing to be torn from their creations until they could be demonstrated to volunteers and parents, and vowing to go home and take apart their vacuum cleaners.
Last Tuesday evening, twenty or so girls between 5 and 8 years old arrived at the campus. The "squishy circuits," as developers from University of St. Thomas call them, were a huge hit. Compared to other electronic projects such as soldering kits or robot-building, this was by comparison inexpensive, easy to set up, and required relatively little technical expertise from the volunteers. Here's what we did.
Two weeks ahead
Recruited some volunteers. We had one adult for every four kids: some were students in my program, others were Brownie leaders who may or may not have had any background with electricity. Volunteers did things like encourage kids, take pictures, fetch extra supplies, make sure no one got hurt, and occasionally make suggestions of things to try when someone got stuck. We probably could have gotten away with half the number of adults. But I found that the kids really wanted to show us their triumphs — it helped to have a surfeit of "witnesses," as well as several cameras.
Assembled supplies. For electronic supplies, we ordered from Digikey — they have reasonable prices and they ship overnight. For craft supplies, we hit the dollar store.
The trickiest thing was to find safety glasses that won't fall off the kids' faces. An LED can explode into tiny bits of plastic shrapnel if connected directly to a 9V battery, so safety glasses are definitely necessary. I visited a local industrial-supply store and bought a model designed for women. They sold them to me in boxes of 10, and they fit the kids fine. UST has suggestions about what to buy and where to find it, including inexpensive mail-order safety glasses in kids' sizes.
One week ahead
Made the dough. Recipes are here. I planned one batch of conductive dough and half a batch of insulating dough for every three kids, which was a generous amount. I used a teaspoon of grocery-store-grade food colouring for every batch. The recipe can be multiplied, but it's very stiff to stir at the end. I was stirring by hand, and a double batch was the most I was physically able to work with. The dough keeps well for over a week if kept at room temperature in a sealed plastic bag.
Gave the volunteers a chance to experiment with the dough, and briefed them about how the workshop would go.
Crimped terminal lugs onto the ends of anything with wires. The helpful folks at UST say that it's recommended, not required. We didn't have time to add lugs onto everything, and circuits work without them. But we found that kids who had terminal lugs were able to bring their imagined creations to life, such as Earl the caterpillar, above; kids who didn't have terminal lugs were able to make lights and buzzers turn on, but got frustrated trying to make it look like the butterfly, elephant, or "spider-cat" they imagined, because the wires kept slipping out of the dough. UST also recommends soldering the lugs; I'm not sure that's a big advantage, and it significantly increases the skill needed to prepare. I used fork lugs (sometimes called spade lugs or Sta-kons); if you can find the type with a hooked end, it'll work even better for grabbing on to the dough. The lugs and the tool for attaching (aka crimping) them are available from the automotive section of a hardware store.
Day Of
Figured out seating and logistics. We had tables of four: three kids and an adult. I didn't want the supplies on the table when we started, because I needed the undivided attention of the kids while I talked about safety, so I made a bag of supplies for each table but left them at the side of the room: one motor, two batteries, one buzzer, a handful of popsicle sticks, one batch of conductive dough, half a batch of insulating dough, etc.
Workshop Agenda
As people were arriving, they took a seat at a table that had pencils, markers, nametags, and blank paper. We encouraged them to draw the animal (real or imagined) that they would like to make tonight.
15 min: When everyone was seated, I introduced myself and introduced the play-dough. I asked everyone to put on their safety glasses. I demo'ed three circuits: an LED circuit in conductive dough (which I showed with the LED in forward and reverse bias), an LED circuit in non-conductive dough, and a short circuit with an LED. We had a brief conversation about the idea that "electricity has to go through things" in order to make them work.
Safety briefing: there are two rules.
- Batteries must always be connected to dough, not directly to other components.
- Wear your safety glasses.
15 min: First mission: figure out how the components work. I showed them the buzzer, button, and motor, and asked them to hook them up to test them.
45 min: Once kids were getting confident about making lights light up and buzzers buzz, I got their attention and asked them what they wanted to build. Was it an animal whose eyes lit up, or a monster that made noise when you pressed a button? I solicited ideas from each table, mostly so that any kids who were at a loss about what was possible could hear a few different ideas. Then I let them go at it, and circulated with the volunteers.
15 min: When the evening was almost over, we brought the kids together and walked to the electronics shop, where we demonstrated some considerably larger lights and motors, and talked a bit about what it means to do this for a living. Many of them had questions about motors (like in ceiling fans and vacuum cleaners) as well as sensors (like in the drinking fountains we had passed or in auto-flushing toilets), so we talked about that for a bit.
I didn't really have a good way to end the workshop. I would have liked to spend a little time having them think about what they noticed, or what they might like to build next, but couldn't really clear up in my head what I was aiming for. So, I thanked them and told them they could take their creations home (except for batteries and motors). We headed back to the activity room, where many of the kids would have happily gone back to making stuff if the arrival of their parents hadn't interfered.
Total workshop time: 1h 30 min.
The room was, predictably, a wreck. We spent an hour wiping dough off of tables, sweeping it off the floor, etc. Any component that had been in the salt dough had its leads corroded beyond use. The instructions from UST suggest wiping down the component leads with fresh water, which might have been worth it if we had any components that weren't hideously disfigured. Instead, we just clipped all the terminal lugs off. We'll crimp new ones on next time.
The other thing I would do next time is get cheap picnic tablecloths from the dollar store, to help contain the mess.
How kids were thinking about electricity
Many kids figured out that any place you connected one LED, you could connect a second one (a parallel circuit). But most had trouble imagining a circuit with more than 2 nodes (a series circuit), and consequently had trouble making their designs a reality. It made me wonder if I should demonstrate both ideas at the beginning.
Consequently, we had a number of kids using the pushbuttons to short out a light. This worked fine and is not dangerous, as long as the battery terminals are connected to dough: the conductive dough has about 10KOhms of resistance in a finger-sized piece.
Many kids had trouble distinguishing the pushbutton from the devices it was supposed to control. For example, one girl wanted her circuit to make noise, and was frustrated that it wasn't working. She had wired a button into the circuit — apparently visualizing the button itself as the buzzer. It made me wonder if next time, I might not hand out the buttons until the kids had explored the other components.
One student discovered that even the non-conductive dough would allow an LED to light up, if you didn't use very much of it. She was very excited about this and came over to let me know that I had been mistaken… which naturally I was also very excited about.
Notes for next time
For making creatures or other representational art, it works best to connect and test all the active elements first, then embed them in conductive dough. For example, to make a pig with glowing eyes and a rotating tail, connect a battery, 2 LEDs, and a motor. Once they are all working, build the pig around them.
Many of the kids were talking about wanting to continue to experiment at home. I wish I had had some kind of handout or recipe card with more information about electronics for kids, and links like the ones below.
I had two batteries for each table of 3-4 kids. Some kids clearly preferred working together, but others didn't. In retrospect, it would have been better to have a battery for each child.
Where to Buy
UST has lists of parts available from Radio Shack / The Source / Circuit City (name varies by location, it's all the same store).
You can also get reasonable prices for small quantities by mail order from Newark or Digikey; I find their websites easier to navigate than some other online retailers.
Finally, there's the Squishy Circuits Store. They sell a kit of components appropriate for one child. More expensive than ordering in bulk from a distributor, but more convenient too — especially if you're not familiar enough with the components to know what to buy.
Supply list
- Conductive dough: 1 batch per 4 people. I prefer plain conductive dough and coloured insulating dough, since people want the pretty colours on the outside of their creations.
- Insulating dough: 1 batch per 4 people.
- Batteries and holders for all participants (such as one 9V battery and terminal snap per person)
- Small motors: ideally, rated for 3V, less than 30 mA, and the lowest rpm you can find (motors that spin too fast are hard to see). We used a 7V motor rated for 7000 rpm. It didn't start reliably, and when it did, it was often too fast to see, or would throw off the piece of dough stuck to the shaft.
- Buzzers: buzzers are rated by volume and pitch. Choose lower-pitched buzzers to prevent insanity. We used these 400 Hz buzzers.
- Pushbuttons and/or potentiometers, if desired
- Extra flour (the dough gets sticky over time) (1 pile at each station)
- Terminal lugs and crimp tool (1 tool per station)
- Wire strippers (1 per station)
- Decorating supplies (straws, popsicle sticks, etc. No pipecleaners — the metal rod in the center could short out the battery)
- Lots of LEDs: I had standard 5mm LEDs, but I love the visibility and ease of handling of the giant 10mm LEDs that UST recommends from Evil Mad Science. Different colours and sizes are nice, as are LEDs with both coloured and clear cases.
- Safety glasses — one pair per person, especially the kind that fit over prescription glasses
- Pencils, markers
- Paper
- Name tags
- Zip lock bags
- Bucket of soapy water, dishcloths, dishtowels (for cleanup afterwards)
- Table cloths (and floor covering?)
- Info to send them home with participants (i.e. where to get supplies, how to make dough)
If you're thinking of trying this activity either at home or with a group, and you have any questions at all about choosing components, tools, etc., please don't hesitate to let me know. It's quite appropriate for the electronics novice, and I'm happy to help out.
More information
Looking for more kid-friendly science and engineering projects? Try these:
"Notes for Family Science Night" by Gas Station Without Pumps
If you teach math or science and are interested in application problems or project-based learning, read on. If you teach other subjects but are interested in what engineering can offer your students, read on too. There are some great organizations and publications in the engineering world that might be of use to K-12 teachers, but sometimes the lack of an "engineering" course in high schools makes it harder to see the link than, say, between high school physics and university physics.
I'm always on the lookout for ways to bridge the gap between those worlds, as well as ways to strengthen understanding of how science and engineering are separate but complementary. In light of that, here's a bit of info about the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), for those who might like to check it out. You don't have to be an engineer to join, and most of their publications are written for a broad audience (reading level similar to Scientific American, not Nature).
K-12 Working Group and Annual Conference
The ASEE maintains a working group of K-12 educators and higher-ed faculty who develop resource materials and school programs. The group puts on a workshop at the annual conference every year (I haven't attended, but I hope to check it out). The benefit I've found here is mostly meeting the people, not using the lesson plans (I found them a bit simpler than I was looking for) but your mileage may vary.
Prism Magazine
The ASEE's monthly magazine, Prism, is a highly readable blend of technology news and educational practice. The current issue's topics include innovative course designs (Motorsports, Game Development, Engineering Disasters), snake-like robots, assistive technology for disabled athletes, and an article called "Scientist as Mad Artist: An engineering educator merges dissent and avant-garde design." My students and I regularly use this for project inspiration.
Journal of Engineering Education
This is the ASEE's peer-reviewed international research journal. I started writing this post today because an article in the latest edition caught my eye: "Problem-based Learning: Influence on Students' Learning in an Electrical Engineering Course." Their results included that "participants' learning gains from PBL were twice their gains from traditional lecture. Even though students learned more from PBL, students thought they learned more from traditional lecture. We discuss these findings and offer implications for faculty interested in implementing PBL." I was able to access the full text without logging in (let me know if the link doesn't work). Another interesting title in the table of contents is "Elementary School Students' Conceptions of Engineering." Lots of food for thought.
If you check these out, let me know whether they're useful. I'm interested in your thoughts about what would encourage collaboration between K-12 and higher ed in engineering and technology fields.


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