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Inside Out Book - A Tough One To Make!

Posted by Douglas Hoover on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, In : New Class Material 
I finally took in to a class the Inside Out Book. I have been putting it off since it is a bit complicated to make. I ended up making each one for the kids in my class.
The effect is very cool. You have a little business size booklet that seems to have more pages but you cannot get to them. You have to know the secret way of opening it to see the other pages. The graphics I added are of a top hat and when you open the book correctly a rabbit pops out, first just the ears and then the entire r...
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Something New - Floating Asteriod!

Posted by Douglas Hoover on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, In : New Class Material 
Did Illusion Day at my class on Monday. Kids always seem to love the material in that class. Now, when I say illusion I mean optical illusions not the sawing a girl in half illusion. And the kids seem to know this because we talked about optical and auditory illusions the first day.
I always seem to find something to tweak each time I present the same class. I re-worked the illusion sheet, which we didn't even get to! I'll bring it again next week. I haven't done The Fishy Story for a while an...
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