The concept of the scale of the universe has come up multiple times with my kids, and our friends, so I thought I’d put together a few links and resources we’ve used.
There is the superb flash animation: Scale of the Universe 2 by Cary Huang and Michael Huang (the (at the time) 14-year-old htwins). [Hmmm… embedding it doesn’t work, sorry]
We also hadn’t gotten a lot of good video and me in my freaky tall blue creature halloween costume so we spent some time on the weekend putting it back on and trying things out.
We stepped in to Kimberly Jackson on Queen Monday after our drop-in and we saw some really nice handcrafted wooden tables that they are having a sale on atm.
Tuesday I was trying to get the kids out of the house to play, but they just seemed to want to stay in. We ended up building some bridges out of Kapla blocks (beam and cantilever), and then put it into practice as I became a human beam bridge, and my daughter was the load.
We did get out of the house in the afternoon though and started raking our leaves — mostly to have a pile to jump in, and a few to add to our compost. Poor tree not getting fresh soil.
I found a bug on Youtube that lets you inflate your video views. I reported it to them a few weeks ago and they haven’t fixed it yet so I thought I’d share it with y’all.
I’m sure you know that if you repeatedly watch your own video, the ‘views’ doesn’t increase. Their system is smart enough to know that the views are coming from the same spot and doesn’t count them. Except! When there is an ‘edit in progress’ it seems. So use the ‘Enhancements’ link at the top of your video and do some small change (trim a few frames, or use the new ‘stabilize’ ability) and save your video. While youtube’s cloud chugs away at reprocessing your video and you see the ‘Edit in progress’ in your Video Manager you can refresh the video page as often as you like and every view will go towards your total count. I haven’t yet tried to automatic it, but a simple script would most likely cause the counter to go way up. The most I’ve bothered with for my little video collection is to get a base 100 views as I didn’t want to actually exploit it.
It was a busier than usual week for video uploads to our youtube channel, so I thought I’d just include them all here in case you missed some. To help from missing out, feel free to subscribe to us and you’ll be notified of new videos as soon as they upload.
It was a busier than usual week for video uploads to our youtube channel, so I thought I’d just include them all here in case you missed some. To help from missing out, feel free to subscribe to us and you’ll be notified of new videos as soon as they upload.
The kids accepted the LEGO Quest Kids #51 Challenge: Olympic Event.Above is a photo of their creation that we’ve submitted to the challenge. And below is a video of them explaining it and some cute bits of them making it.
Sam runs the LEGO Quest once a month on her blog, and it’s open to all home educated families around the world. I’ll update here with the link to all the other entries once they get posted. Happy Building!
Update: the submissions have been posted! Go and review the 140+ entries of amazing lego creations from kids from all over.
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