David Byrne's Playing the Building

I've become consumed with creativity lately. So when the following video showed up on Bloglines from on Wired.com, I had to check it out. Creativity suggests originality, and I would have to say that Byrne's idea is beyond original.

What interests me most about it though is that it does not seem to be a project that would require a great deal of knowledge and skill to pull off. Through trial and error, this is a project that a highly creative and motivated teacher could do with his/her students (though on a much smaller scale). Imagine how engaged the students would be! John Dewey would be proud!


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Wired New: Teaching Teachers About Wind Power

If you read this blog, it should be obvious by now that I get quite a bit of good information from Wired News's blog. The particular blog that I read is updated so often (at least 20 times a day) and has such a vast audience that just about anybody can find something interesting to read from it.

Lately I've been interested in teaching my kids about wind power. We have an electricity unit coming up and I thought that building a wind turbine that actually generates electricity would be an excellent way to extend the curriculum. So it was really nice to see on the Wired blog an article about Michael Arquin, a former teacher and founder of the KidWind Project, a small company dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of wind energy science education throughout the US. 

I had visited the KidWind website before to get ideas and price some materials. The site is an excellent place to begin AND finish research on the implementation of wind power project in the classroom. It has lesson plans and an online store so that teachers can purchase materials for building small turbines.

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