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Songbird76

Songbird76

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donaldtoo said:
And, just for grins, pics of some of the dusty old physical scale models layin’ around the office that our firm used to make before SketchUp (the 3-D modeling computer program) came along...! :)

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I should show these to DD. She uses that cardboard stuff for her Technasium class. And she uses sketchup, too, but only at home...they haven't gotten that far in technasium class yet, but she loves it.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Last night we went to a really cool theater thing at DD's school, just for the parents. It's for parents to help with talking to their teens about....things teens are going through. So they have an actress, an actor, and a sort of facilitator, and the 2 people act out scenes, like...the 17 year old daughter is going on vacation without the parents for the first time, the teenage son is looking at.....inappropriate things on the internet, the daughter is posting photos on Instagram that you don't approve of. And they would do the scene, ask the parents in the audience what went well, what we would change, and then they'd ask someone who had a really good idea to come and take the place of the actor playing the parent role. It was quite fascinating....I wasn't sure what to expect, but it was so much better than I thought it was going to be. And I think they said they also do workshops for kids, and they do things about learning to handle money, bullying, peer pressure, etc. And the actors were SOOOO good at playing teenagers. It was HILARIOUS. They would react as teenagers to whatever the audience was saying. Like...my husband said one thing he would change was how sudden the conversation was...that it had to start earlier and not be just ONE conversation but ongoing...like 15 small conversations over time, and the woman playing the daughter said "I don't think we need to have even ONE!!" and everyone was just laughing. It was really relaxed. It was more like watching a stand up comedian talking about conversations with their teenagers than it was a workshop.

And tomorrow, a British theater group comes to the school to do a workshop with all the dual immersion first year students (DD) and then they do a presentation for the parents in the evening. That should be fun!
 


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