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Wednesday, July 01, 2020
RESOURCES: Storytelling with KIBO: Meeting Early Literacy Milestones with Robotics
I participated as a panel member yesterday in Kinderlab's KIBO Robotics Webinar "Storytelling with KIBO: Meeting Early Literacy Milestones with Robotic" here are the resources I mentioned a inserted into my slides...
Student
Robotics 2019: An Educator’s Guide (FREE eBook Download)
In our inaugural Educator’s Guide, 90 pages of rich and riveting
robotics, coding, and real-world relevant learning—featuring exclusive
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From the Bucket List: Brazil, Argentina & Chile: South America Trip - October 2018
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness
Mark Twain
Rememberances and Reflections on our recent trip through South America...
DAY 1, Monday - Depart for Brazil
DAY 2, Tuesday - Arrive in Rio de
Janeiro
DAY 3, Wednesday - Rio de Janeiro,
Tour of Corcovado Mountain
DAY 4, Thursday - Rio de Janeiro
Today...Visit one of the top Samba schools in the city and learn what made the
Samba & Carnival icons of Brazilian national identity....sample the cuisine
at some of the fabulous restaurants and cafes ringing the beachfront
Brazil turned out to be the highlight. Rio is gorgeous beyond reputation and sophisticated beyond expectation. Very friendly and polite people who seem to know they've got something truly special going on...
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DAY 5, Friday - Fly to
Iguassu, Brazilian Falls
…walk along the winding pathways on the Brazilian side of the majestic and
awe-inspiring Falls, one of the world's greatest natural wonders. Iguassu
consists of over 275 separate cataracts across a span of two and one-half
miles, wider than Victoria Falls and higher than Niagara... enjoy a typical
Argentine dinner
Click on photo to view album... Puerto Iguazu, Argentina - Mellow jungle town that overlooks the river confluence where Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina meet. A great place for a wannabe novelist highly influenced by Márquez to set her story...
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Political Mural on the Road - Latin America is full of political street art. This one, encountered on a walk along the Parana River, is particularly powerful and affecting... seems to be devoted tounderstandings about the struggle between regimes and resistance to them, expressed through the life of Che...
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DAY 7, Sunday - Fly to Buenos Aires
...Its beauty is apparent with its elegant architecture, wide tree-shaded
boulevards, striking monuments and sprawling parks.... treat yourself to an
Argentine beef dinner at one of the city's many superb steak restaurants DAY 8, Monday - Buenos Aires City Tour
…Plaza de Mayo, Metropolitan Cathedral and Casa Rosada (government palace); see
the balcony where Eva and Juan Peron made their speeches. Then, to the colorful
La Boca neighborhood, a working class barrio, and the old quarters of San Telmo
and Caminito, a mix of colonial style homes, narrow lanes…. Drive to the
Recoleta Cemetery, final resting place of many of the wealthiest and most
important Argentine historical figures. including the tomb of Eva
"Evita" Peron. Tonight…Argentine Dinner and Tango Show
B.A. (as locals call it) is bustling, modern and sophisticated, and very European in style and feel. And the Porteños (port dwellers, natives of this capital city) kind of make you feel like life is mostly about red wine, the local pizza (this place IS Italian to the core), Futbol (Soccer... Go, Boca Juniors!), and TANGO!
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"Caminito ("little walkway" or "little path") is a street museum and a traditional alley, located in La Boca, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The place acquired cultural significance because it inspired the music for the famous tango "Caminito" (1926)" Caminito - Tango - Carlos Gardel
DAY 10, Wednesday - Fly to Santiago
…depart Buenos Aires by flight to Santiago, the energetic capital of Chile. DAY 11, Thursday -Santiago City Tour
… tour takes you through the colonial neighborhoods of the city that contrast
with the modern financial center, known as Sanhattan… beautiful residences that are part of the
Barrio Universitario (University Area). In the historical center visit the
lively Plaza de Armas, with its fountains, sculpture and intriguing
people-watching opportunities. The tour continues with a drive along the green
Parque Forestal with its stunning Fine Arts museum. Continue crossing the
bohemian neighborhood of Bellavista and climb up San Cristóbal Hill to a
viewpoint, for a magnificent panoramic view of the city with its backdrop of
the towering Andes Mountains.
Santiago is modern and beautiful with parks and plants everywhere. Literally nestled in a valley surrounded by the snow-capped Andes and the Chilean Coast Range.
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DAY 12, Friday - Full Day in Santiago
…tour to the Pacific Coast to visit the picturesque port of Valparaiso, and
Viña del Mar known as the Garden City for its pretty parks and flower-lined
streets… a traditional Chilean dinner at a local restaurant and bid farewell to
your new-found friends and to South America
Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino - A magnificent collection of Pre Columbian Art in the heart of the city... not just from Chile, but from throughout Latin America.
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Museum of Memory and Human Rights
An extraordinary place dedicated to commemorating the victims of human rights violations
during the civic-military regime led by Augusto Pinochet between 1973
and 1990... AND to keeping the memory of all such victims of institutionalized, violent oppression worldwide!
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DAY 12, Friday -
…tour to the Pacific Coast to visit the picturesque port of Valparaiso, and
Viña del Mar known as the Garden City for its pretty parks and flower-lined
streets… a traditional Chilean dinner at a local restaurant and bid farewell to
your new-found friends and to South America
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DAY 13, Saturday - Depart Chile Thanks, Flavio, our most excellent guide through 3 countries - Thanks to the convivial folks we shared this enriching experience with - and Thanks, Gate1 Travel, for a well organized tour!
While you’re reading, rock out to some inspiration and sage advice from the great Jimmy Cliff “Treat the youths right - Or you'll be playin' with dynamite…” Are you listening Joel?
