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Private Public Space at City Hall
Hot on the heels of the success of our first outing , we were keen to take our No NO NO sign back into the city. The sign highlights the hypocrisy of urban public/private space - where land that appears public is actually owned by private corporations. On the surface, London is a city full of open spaces bustling with shoppers and tourists.Health Month
Health Month is a game to help improve your diet, fitness, mental health, relationship health, and financial health – while enjoying it! Health Month is about taking the SCIENCE of nutrition and behavior change and combining it with the SOCIAL GAMES of the recent social web to help people improve their health habits in a fun and sustainable way. If you can enjoy the process of living healthier, you're much more likely to stick to it.
4 in Share 0 In my blog post, “ How Can Goals Enhance Creativity ” I said… “…As long as everyone in the organization believes they are playing a game which is designed to get them energized today, and it is not specifically about hitting the target, I can assure you that people will be more motivated.” They typically have a complex set of rules that all of the players need to adhere to. If you break the rules you “go to jail,” are disqualified, or get penalized. Adult games end.
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Wanna Come Out and Play? Community Engagement & Technology Development | MIT Center for Future Civic Media
When my old friend and collaborator Leo Burd returned to MIT as a research scientist for the Center for Future Civic Media (C4FCM), we started to gather some like-minded folks to discuss how media and mapping tools and youth civic engagement can intersect in the world of the Media Lab. Both of us have often been called a bridge or a translator between technology developers and underserved community members. We see a value in equalizing the power that comes from self construction, blurring the role of creator and user. At first, we just wanted to be part of multi-directional conversations and find creative ways to document the ideas exchanged. Across what seemed like a very disparate set of projects, we found a common value in finding or making new technologies that are appropriate for youth use directly reflect on and affect change in their everyday worlds.
March 29th, 2012 Thank you very much to one of our best Chaffy Finders Laura M, who sent in these photos kindly taken by her friends Marilyn in Ohio, and Patti in Maryland. Here’s a Chaffy having fun and rocking those shades! Picture by the very talented Rebecca Williams! Hello everyone!
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This summer 100 ping pong tables popped across London from the Tate Modern to Heathrow Airport, in London’s squares, museums and shopping centres. The tables were there for all Londoners to enjoy for free and over the four weeks they were out attracted over 30,000 ping pong lovers all over the city! Thank you to everyone who made Ping! happen this year. Play On We’ll be busy moving Ping!
Ping London | Ping! a table tennis revolution
Google Scribe provides text completion service. Using information from what you have already typed in a document, Google Scribe provides related word or phrase completion suggestions. In addition to saving keystrokes, Google Scribe's suggestions indicate correct or popular phrases to use. Okay, so I was having a play. So, I made it rank the suggestions by Google Scribe's rank (by hitting the little G) below the suggestions and I started with the word 'I' and just accepted all the top ranked words it gave me.