Where have the years gone?! My now 36 year old son chewed the ears off two Grovers while mesmerized (and educated) by the characters on this iconic show. Google, too, honored the series on its homepage today.
A must to watch, even if you are tone deaf like me, is the new addition to the Kentucky Muse series titled “Eighty-eight Keys, Three Hundred Years”. By all means check out the “Pianopedia” link, for a rich, but whimsical, tour of the piano’s history. Your kids will love it, too! November air dates are listed below, but the site lists several December dates, too:

Nonetheless, neither PBS nor KET is showing any signs of age either as we continue to produce terrific educational content. A new year of Design Squad premiered last month along with a free, updated Teacher’s Guide for middle and high school science teachers. Design Squad is a high-energy, high-drama reality show that lets kids show off their smarts as they design and build working solutions for real clients.
PBS’ National Parks series continues to generate ideas from teachers about how to use the series in the classrooom. Most recently, Discovery’s DEN teacher, Karen Blosch blogged about the series with “Eight Great Technology Activities with the National Parks” using such resources as Google Earth, Inspiration, and free web tools such as Comic Life and wikis.
Our own new resources, the Electronic Field Trip to the Belle of Louisville and Scale City, are proving to be big hits when we show them in workshops. In fact, most of my audiences had totally forgotten about all of our 25 trips and their accompanying websites.







wonderful outdoor event. Only my second trip here, I was again overwhelmed with the scope of this fair and the wealth of talent on display. After three hours, I knew I was not going to see it all this time either. As I meandered the crowded aisles, I noticed dozens of people toting their finds in bright blue bags, and, upon inspection saw the KET logo on the side! Comrades! After asking the booth location I headed that way and saw fellow KET folks distributing bags as fast as they could to the gathered crowd. The pics relate some of the story, but those bags were a hit! Here, Tim Bischoff spots me as others distribute the goodies.