Incidently, Vi Hart just posted a circle drawing video. One of the featured speakers at OAME 2014 will be George W. Hart, who was introduced as Vi's father - only in the internet age!
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Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Thursday, May 9, 2013
More Circle Drawing
This seems like a long time into 2013 for the year's first post. The occasion is the receipt of an email from Dan Meyer (possibly in error) alerting me to a fun circle drawing applet
a student in England put together. This is a nice followup to my previous posts (first, second) about Alexander Overwijk, a teacher at my alma mater, Glebe Collegiate whose motto is "in alta tende", which I have always loved. The three of us were at OAME 2013 last week which was marvelous. The applet would be a interesting tool to judge a freehand circle drawing contest.
Incidently, Vi Hart just posted a circle drawing video. One of the featured speakers at OAME 2014 will be George W. Hart, who was introduced as Vi's father - only in the internet age!
Incidently, Vi Hart just posted a circle drawing video. One of the featured speakers at OAME 2014 will be George W. Hart, who was introduced as Vi's father - only in the internet age!
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Two cewebrities at one session
I am at the OAME 2012 Conference in Kingston, showing folks the new CLIPS wrapper, calculator and Multiplying Fractions Activities in development mode. I did get a chance to see Dan Meyer's presentation on Thursday "Why Kids Hate Word Problems". It was a sensible, craftful, and powerful appeal.
A delightful part was that by coincidence I sat next to another internet sensation, Mr. O. Faithful readers of this blog (a bit of useful fiction) will remember my earlier post about this teacher at my alma mater and his 15 minutes of internet fame. That post had some of the details wrong, apparently. Mr. O was flown to Portugal for the making of a movie about the perfect circle and spoke at Art Basel, in Switzerland, about his experience. He even spoke to producers at the Letterman show. Apparently, the video was shot in June 2006 by Glebe's webmaster, who you can hear in the background, and posted to their site where it received about as much interest as this blog. In January, some kid in North Dakota posted it to YouTube, College Humor and some other sites. It went viral and was YouTube's featured video for two weeks. Mr. O. did not until that time even know what YouTube was. He does now.
In case you require documentation, I have embedded the footage from the World Championship.
A delightful part was that by coincidence I sat next to another internet sensation, Mr. O. Faithful readers of this blog (a bit of useful fiction) will remember my earlier post about this teacher at my alma mater and his 15 minutes of internet fame. That post had some of the details wrong, apparently. Mr. O was flown to Portugal for the making of a movie about the perfect circle and spoke at Art Basel, in Switzerland, about his experience. He even spoke to producers at the Letterman show. Apparently, the video was shot in June 2006 by Glebe's webmaster, who you can hear in the background, and posted to their site where it received about as much interest as this blog. In January, some kid in North Dakota posted it to YouTube, College Humor and some other sites. It went viral and was YouTube's featured video for two weeks. Mr. O. did not until that time even know what YouTube was. He does now.
In case you require documentation, I have embedded the footage from the World Championship.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
A large scale GPS art project
My blogsearch for Sketchpad bubbled this beauty to the top of my Reader.
The artist drew a self-portrait on the world and recorded the results at the Biggest Drawing in the World site.
The first thing I wondered about was putting the lat/long data into Fathom!
The artist drew a self-portrait on the world and recorded the results at the Biggest Drawing in the World site.
The first thing I wondered about was putting the lat/long data into Fathom!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Everyone for Glebe stand up and holler!
Here is a viral movie that missed infecting me until recently:
Currently, over 4 million people have looked at this video recorded in the hallowed halls of my alma mater, Glebe Collegiate Institute.
My informant in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, tells me that the champion, Alexander Overwijk, Math head at Glebe, was flown to the Czech Republic for a cameo appearance in a movie recently. Makes you believe Guy Kawasaki's contention that web success ("cewebrity") is mainly luck.
Currently, over 4 million people have looked at this video recorded in the hallowed halls of my alma mater, Glebe Collegiate Institute.
My informant in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, tells me that the champion, Alexander Overwijk, Math head at Glebe, was flown to the Czech Republic for a cameo appearance in a movie recently. Makes you believe Guy Kawasaki's contention that web success ("cewebrity") is mainly luck.
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