I have sent an e-mail to a few people about this lecture I watched yesterday--I want to share it with a lot of people. So, I decided the best way to go about it is to mention it here for anybody who might read this blog. Here's the scoop:
My daughter told me about this professor, Randy Pausch, who gave his last lecture--something that profs do at Carnegie Mellon University. The twist on this is that the man, Randy Pausch, is actually dying--and he was only 47 when he was told he had only a few months left to live. It's a very good lecture--has little to do with death and more to do with realizing your dreams and your life potential. Also, he's involved in a program that takes a special interest in young girls and women going into the computer field--specifically virutual reality and computer animation. So, the team at Carnegie Mellon developed a program called Alice, that is more a game and interactive environment that makes learning fun. It's also free. I thought you might like to take a look at it and maybe your children might be interested in the Alice program. I downloaded it and played with it a bit yesterday and it really is fun! I made an ice skater do a spin. lol But, if your kids are at all interested in computer animation and want to "play" while they learn, take a look at it. Even if they aren't interested, they might find it fun and end up becoming interested. Who knows?
Here's the site where I watched The Last Lecture:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
Here is the site for the Alice programs:
http://www.alice.org/
The Last Lecture is about life, not death. It's about dreams and getting to them. It's about success and failure and how we can learn more from our failures than our successes. It's a great and humorous look at how we live our lives. Take a look and have fun. And if you think it is something your children or anyone else might be interested in, talk to the schools and tell them about it.
My daughter told me about this professor, Randy Pausch, who gave his last lecture--something that profs do at Carnegie Mellon University. The twist on this is that the man, Randy Pausch, is actually dying--and he was only 47 when he was told he had only a few months left to live. It's a very good lecture--has little to do with death and more to do with realizing your dreams and your life potential. Also, he's involved in a program that takes a special interest in young girls and women going into the computer field--specifically virutual reality and computer animation. So, the team at Carnegie Mellon developed a program called Alice, that is more a game and interactive environment that makes learning fun. It's also free. I thought you might like to take a look at it and maybe your children might be interested in the Alice program. I downloaded it and played with it a bit yesterday and it really is fun! I made an ice skater do a spin. lol But, if your kids are at all interested in computer animation and want to "play" while they learn, take a look at it. Even if they aren't interested, they might find it fun and end up becoming interested. Who knows?
Here's the site where I watched The Last Lecture:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
Here is the site for the Alice programs:
http://www.alice.org/
The Last Lecture is about life, not death. It's about dreams and getting to them. It's about success and failure and how we can learn more from our failures than our successes. It's a great and humorous look at how we live our lives. Take a look and have fun. And if you think it is something your children or anyone else might be interested in, talk to the schools and tell them about it.
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