A new library class series, OAKTech, Older Adults and Kids and Technology. Fifth and sixth graders from the Lego League teams at Lemme and Mann are teaching monthly classes to older adults about Skype, Google Maps and iPads
Space Guitar! Live from the International Space Station
on February 9, 2013
Love this collaboration between Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, aboard the International Space Station, Barenaked Ladies’ Eddie Robertson and the Wexford Gleeks. Commander Hadfield has been very busy engaging with planet Earth during his time aboard the International Space Station tweeting, chatting with William Shatner, and, on February 22, the first Google+ hangout from space. Submit […]
Coding Club Update
on October 13, 2012
Today is the second meeting of CoderDojo at the library. The first CoderDojo was a hit with 18 students Grades 4–9 spending two hours busily learning HTML5 and even a bit of CSS3. The mentors threw them right into programming which seemed to work well. Quite impressive how much they accomplished on their web pages! […]
Tech Club Offshoot: Coding Club for Kids
on September 10, 2012
Kids Tech Club will continue as it did last year (six-week sessions focusing on free online tools for image editing, animation, QR codes, etc.), but it has developed and revealed another need. Space, age restrictions and the students’ growing skills mean that a follow-up opportunity was needed. I surveyed the summer participants and learned that […]
Nonfiction Monday: Cool Circuits
on July 30, 2012
I enlisted my fourteen-year-old for this hands-on review of Cool Circuits by Susan Martineau and Nick Bushell, part of the Awesome Activities series from Windmill Books. We had a fun evening with the experiments and some offshoots of our own. My first criticism of the book is that it jumps straight into projects without an introductory […]