Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
I’m currently having a grand time at “Lindy Focus,” a weeklong celebration of lindy hop and swingin jazz in Asheville, North Carolina. Held in the Crowne Plaza Resort in Asheville, the hotel basically gets overrun by 1,000 or so lindy hoppers and jazz musicians for seven days of festivities. There’s classes, jazz jams, vintage clothing…
I bought a mount for my phone on my scooter and decided to try out taking videos of my ride. Here's one of my favorite rides in the city, from my apartment to Lands End and back. On the way there I shot a timelapse video. And on the way back, I shot a…
Last week, I and some friends had an amazing time visiting the Walt Disneyworld and Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando. It was a fantastic opportunity to catch up on the explosion of themeparks since the last time I was there about 18 years ago. Walt Disneyworld is of course the grand-daddy of them all,…
Last night, some friends and I ate at the "Sci-Fi Theater Restaurant" in Disney's Hollywood Studios themepark in Orlando. It's a good reminder to me of how evocative and inspiring well-designed spaces can be. The Sci-fi Theater is actually a pretty hard place to get a reservation at, in my experience. I've been visiting Disneyworld…
Today was day one of my trip to Disneyworld with some friends this week. It's been nearly 20 years since I've been to this Disneypark, and it's long past due. On this first day we tackled the centerpiece of the multi-park complex, The Magic Kingdom. We hit up a large majority of the park between 9am…
So here's a little story about what me and some buddies did last weekend. We took a trip from San Francisco to New York. We might have overpacked a little. Not Pictured: Patrick and Natasha's luggage and our backpacks full of electronics. We were there for a modest dance event called "Frankie100." The purpose was to…
This past weekend, I had the honor of MCing a fun panel discussion among educators in three locales in the US on the topic of fostering youth voice in local learning networks. If you are a local educator and looking for ways to better serve your youth community, I recommend that you check out the…
We at Yehoodi.com are so excited to announce that we are giving away two free passes to the Frankie 100 Festival, happening from May 22-26, 2014 in New York City. The Frankie100 Festival of course is going to be the lindy hop event of the year, if not the decade, with a couple of…
The Digital Media and Learning conference is one of my favorite professional events of the year. DML gathers several hundred of the leading practitioners, researchers and supporters of the field of digital learning for an intense three days of sharing, discussions, and strategizing. It's like an extended family for me, after many years of participating….
In the museum and informal science education field we often place ourselves in opposition to amusement parks and theme parks. My own museum's ED has said to our staff, "we have no pirates" in our museum. From a certain perspective I think that makes sense. Amusement parks as private ventures have as their primary mandate…