"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
Just a radom post here but I thought some of you could have some fun with this site called Picnik. For those who don't have PhotoShop or know how to use it, this cool site is chock full of easy-to-use practical tools such as red-eye fix, cropping, sharpening, and auto-fixing but even more fun are the special effects you can apply to your photos. All for free!
Here's a few I tried...
"Posterize":
"1960's" (love the rounded corners on this and orange skin): *oops, hard to see the edges right when I've got these frames on my pics. oh well.*
"Pencil sketch", kinda creepy:
And they have normal ones like sepia:
And very not normal ones like "gooify". Oh this one can keep you laughing awhile...
Last is my real PhotoShop fix. Not as fun but makes my eyes feel right again.
Try it. You'll like it.
"By nature people are learning animals. Birds fly; fish swim; humans think and learn. Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into learning by wheedling, bribing, or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do - and all we need to do - is to give children as much help and guidance as they need and ask for, listen respectfully when they feel like talking, and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the rest."
John Holt
"In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself." -Grace Llewellyn
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
George Bernard Shaw
Real, natural learning is in the living. It's in the observing, the questioning, the examining, the pondering, the analyzing, the watching, the reading, the DO-ing, the living, the breathing, the loving, the JOY. It's in the joy. ~Anne Ohman
"How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?" -Henry D. Thoreau
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