Waveplace Blog : Publicity

Just posted the one-hour Waveplace Awards video, which includes the winners and all twelve children reading their storybooks. http://waveplace.com/awards/ You can either watch the full hour from that page, or choose chapter-by-chapter from the list below the video box. Once watching a chapter, click "next" to view the next chapter. If you just want to know the winners, click the "Award Presentations" chapter. Thanks once again to the many who participated....

Thanks to everyone for the gift of your time to make tonight's Waveplace Awards a reality. I'm sure you're all wondering how it went ... and who won! For those watching at home, the live event may have seemed a bit haphazard, with long waits between acts. My apologies and great thanks for your patience. I was running "the booth" by myself. It was quite a task coordinating everything and communicating with four very distant places at the same time. While "whatever can go wrong will", in retrospect quite a lot more went right than not. The dances by the...

Last week, Waveplace finished our pilot in Immokalee, Florida. We'll be posting student storybooks soon, but for now you can watch our first Florida video, which gives a taste of our "improv theater" teaching style. There are also several newspaper and radio reports on our press page and a few articles in our latest newsletter. Today we start our pilot near Rivas, Nicaragua. We're using Spanish-keyboard XOs and solar panels this time, since the school has no electricity. Our three Waveplace mentors flew in last night and will begin teaching the teachers today. The kids get their laptops tomorrow. We've...

Just heard the two-part NPR story on Waveplace's XO and Etoys pilot in Immokalee, Florida. Have a listen here. Pretty surreal hearing myself on national radio. I'm a bit disappointed that Etoys got characterized as clumsy ... the alligator thing was from one of our advanced lessons for the adults. I imagine someone watching a person learn guitar for the first time would also think it clumsy. Great quotes from Christa and Susan. Photos from the pilot are here. Video is here....

Great article about Waveplace in the St John Tradewinds. Talks about our Virgin Islands pilot, which is into its second week. We also launched our new website, which has a terrific new video from our trip to Haiti earlier this month....

Yesterday I set up a weblog on the Waveplace site, so I can write little dispatches about the research we've done over the summer. http://waveplace.com/ (click "Blog") I'll try to write a little bit every weekday, so check back frequently if you're interested. For those that know what RSS is, you can also subscribe to the feed: http://bigfractaltangle.com/waveplace.rdf As you can see, these posts are from my primary blog, "Big Fractal Tangle". They're the ones tagged "waveplace". http://bigfractaltangle.com Anyway, I won't bother the mailing list with these daily dispatches ... tune in yourself if you're interested. I'll be talking about...

We just went live with the public waveplace site, which among other things has the pilot proposal and a preview movie created by Jan Kinder and Bill Stelzer. I've also put the proposal on this wiki for easy reference....