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Learning the ropes of being an engineer is a 24/7 job just like everything else on the railroad. Here a newer engineer trainee works the control stand over while switching cars.
I want you to understand that I am not the same as yesterday. You were the turning point and although maybe not. I just wake up without talking to the pillow, learning to rest from you and my thoughts.
So as with every time I learn a new technique I must try it out on poor Domo. After our last time out doing portraits with a flash I really wanted to know how to achieve better results and nicer lighting.
Turns out, flash photography is a whole new world of learning and of course buying things! So I went and got a light stand with umbrella and some wireless receivers and here we are again.
We went to the same park as the last photo trip and this time tried some off camera flash stuff. It took a while to learn and honestly I'm still trying to understand it, but we took some really cool shots I think. Here's the first one hot off the presses.
For the learning challenge. I FINALLY caved. ;) Printed off the free "Friendship Definition" digi kit found at 2 peas: www.twopeasinabucket.com/shop/hero-arts/83717-digikit-ha-.... Used it in 2 sizes. Larger for the strip and a smaller size to use with the MS 3 Butterflies punch. Also used Line and Flower DB stamp with Versamark on thee background but it's hard to see in the picture. Notecard, gems and felt flower all HA.
The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh is famous for its Nationality Rooms ---real classrooms, but decorated to reflect various nationalities.
The Chinese room has one of the most ornate ceilings of all the Nationality Rooms. There was a large round table in the middle of the room. I sat down, stretched my arms as far as possible to place my camera, facing up, near the center of the table. (Luckily my screen can be rotated in any direction so I could see what was framed in the image.) I took a few shots. But the dragon was facing the wrong way, so I turned the photo 180º.
At this site, (www.nationalityrooms.pitt.edu) you can view photos of the rooms. Hold your cursor over a photo, then click on the country name to see a short video (2 to 5 min) about each of the 30 rooms.
The building was completed in 1937,. Most of these rooms were dedicated between 1938 and 1957, however newer rooms have been dedicated as recently as 2012. Other rooms are planned or under consideration for the future.
Much of the work on the building was done by immigrants from various countries. The rooms were meant to celebrate the heritage of the many immigrant communities in Pittsburgh. Representatives of each country were permitted to choose the decor of one classroom. Most represent a time from the late 1700's or earlier. There were a few rules they had to follow. There had to be a chalk board in the room. Usually it is hidden behind decorative cabinet doors. There had to be seating for students and a table or desk for the instructor. Several rooms are quite large and can hold classes for dozens of students, but many are smaller rooms suitable for a small group to sit around a table. Those that have desks usually have custom-made chairs in the style of the country with a writing arm desk on the right. The Turkish room has fold-down desk arms for both left and right-handed students.
grandpa is trying to teach little man to play the piano...
My dad is having major back surgery tomorrow. I am so worried, but hope today's technology makes it an easy recovery. Say a prayer for grandpa if you will.....
Taken with:
- Nikon D300
- Nikkor AF-S DX 18-105 mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
Aperture: ƒ8, ISO: 100
Strobist info:
- SB-900 on left with 1/4 power in 12mm
(using the Nikon Creative Lighting System)
K-12 Instructional Technology Specialists visit the Grand Valley Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons as well as the GVSU Tech Showcase
I was messing around with one of my new hooks and yarn, this is how I crochet now. I plan to work off the book though when I get a chance. I can crochet basic stuff (scarfs... and scarfs) but thats it. I don't even think I do it right though, but I can kinda do it. I'm anxious to learn. i just ordered the book, Hello My Name is Amineko!
I knew how to emboss before I joined the HA group but never really used it... so here is my go at clear embossing with the heart winged butterfly stamp.... can you guess I LOVE this stamp!! ! LOL!!!
Black cardstock and black envelope stamped with versamark and heat embossed with clear powder. Labels one die cut and coloured pearls black with a sharpie (another new thing I learnt recently). pp by K&Co (Amy Butler) Sentiment from CL277.
I also embossed a butterfly on the envelope flap and put a white insert into the card.
The Science behind the emotion.
Q: Why don’t we forget how to ride a bike?
A: Theory holds several clues to support the oft-heard phrase “just like riding a bike.”
Riding a bicycle is what motor control experts tend to refer to as a “continuous task,” compared to discrete tasks with definite endings (like turning a key to start your car). Peter van Kan, kinesiology professor at UW-Madison, said research has laid out three reasons why bicycle riding feels like second nature.
Discrete tasks draw more on verbal and cognitive skills, while continuous tasks are written into a more reflexive mechanism in the mind. Continuous tasks also require — and are more likely to be given — more attention and time during the learning process, and thus become further ingrained.
“One way to look at it is a continuous task may incorporate many discrete actions,” van Kan said. “(While learning) a continuous task you have many more opportunities to accomplish the many discrete tasks.”
Most important, van Kan said, might be the way we judge bicycle riders. If you learn to ride a bicycle, but then stay out of the saddle for several years, your first few cranks of the pedals post-lay-off may not make you look like Lance Armstrong.
“You may be a little unstable at first,” van Kan said. “But very quickly, as you are repeating those many discrete tasks, you are renewing what you learned years before and you may quickly be stable and appear to be a good bicycle rider.”
Our middle-school students at Tam High are building a City of the Future together, using arts and electronics to make a model of what our world may be like in 100 years.
In our seventh class, students continued to work in teams to make public spaces for their city: underwater mines, rich and poor areas, surface rubbles and skyscrapers for the rich.
In their post-apocalyptic city of the future, called 15A, the rich are separated from the poor, who mine the sea floor and are oppressed by a government run by machines. This week’s creations included a new fence between rich and poor, a toxic river, trees and bushes.
I am teaching this after-school course with my partners Geo Monley and Cynthia Gilbert. They filled in for me for this class, as I was at a maker ed convening the day of the class. These pictures were taken two days later, with our art cart in a storage space.
We are really happy to see our students so engaged in this project. They are developing a wide range of skills, from creative expression to science and engineering. And they are learning to create interactive art with simple electronics, in a playful and collaborative way that makes learning more fun.
Learn more about our City of the Future course: fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/23/city-of-the-future/
View our slides for this City of the Future course:
bit.ly/city-of-the-future-slides-tam-high-1
View more photos of our Maker Art course at Tam High:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157666710348841
Learn more about our Maker Art courses:
fabriceflorin.com/2016/02/14/teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Tom Stevens, a disabled United States Air Force veteran, discusses learning through overcoming substance use and abuse in his talk "Learning from Addiction: So Hard to Change."
TEDxPioneerValley, an independently organized event licensed by TED, explores learning that takes place in unexpected ways, cracking open traditional notions of how learning happens. The day-long conference at Amherst College Jan. 21, 2012, is presented in collaboration with the Holyoke Community College Adult Learning Center, Amherst College, Smith College and Mount Holyoke College.
Photo by Samuel Masinter
I'm not sure if this will appeal to everyone but I quite like it, I took loads of pictures of these cygnets ( seems funny now calling them cygnets ! ) on what must have been one of their first flights but none of them were really sharp. I couldn't focus on the eye without chopping them in half so just had to focus on the body and pray, I know I could've changed the focus points but that would be fiddly at the best of times !
PS quite chuffed the Stop The Cull site are using one of my badger pics :
www.facebook.com/stop.the.cull
I know it wasn't taken at night but an excuse to mention one of my favourite Jimi Hendrix songs, ' Night Bird Flying ' :