new year

had to put these two pictures up even though it is saturday. the first was drawn late last night by my youngest son while we were looking at the lego website deciding whether to buy star wars lego, as well as looking at the batman stuff on line or wait to go to the shops.
the other is taken from a web cam of the beach break in west cornwall this morning, I was supposed to be going to a surf competition today near home but haven't gone as the swell direction is easterly, so weakish and cold but further down the coast it is looking good!

bunty >> lego >> adding things together.

I have just been on a very quick memory and web search driven journey all triggered off by remembering that my older sister always got a bunty magazine/comic, and at christmas a bunty annual. so I searched for some pictures from the early 1970's. I was born in 1961 so it would have been aroung this time that she read bunty.
while I was looking at stuff I noticed the lego logo from 1970 and couldn't believe how close it was but very different to the current logo. I was never a big fan of lego but my children are/were. and lastly I could not resist this ideal toy car magazine image the colour to me just make the 1970's happen in front of me.

space >> lego >> david bowie?

ben likes this, I like this, lego is so cool. mix it with david bowie well it's very interesting and good fun.

lego >> films >> youtube

I have often checked stuff that the students I teach as well as what my own children look at on the internet as well as how they use it. it is for many reasons not just the obvious (their security).
I often get ideas for new ways of teaching ICT in the classroom, I nearly always find that the younger they are the more intuitive they are. perhaps it is because they are not being scared to try stuff without thinking things might go wrong with the 'expensive machine'.

the other day I was amazed to find that my normally busy, happy, sporty, easily distracted 9 year old was sitting silently at my computer totally absorbed. I had to see what was so good, he was watching lego films on youtube.
the good thing after I had managed to get him away from the computer he continued to play with his own lego even having a go at making his own films with improvised sets. I don't get cross now when I tread (barefoot it really hurts) on his lego all over the front room floor early in the morning. I am pleased with the creativity and the thinking behind making new stuff from created stuff.

obviously this film is not one of his but it I like it, give it a chance its really quite good.