Saturday, August 29, 2020

We're only PRETENDING to be retired

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I love what I do for a living. My whole life I've been a teacher. Straight out of college I got a job as a weight trainer and aerobics i...
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Monday, March 02, 2020

Dr Seuss Tribute Assembly Show

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My Dr. Seuss Read Across America school assembly show is a tribute to Theodore Seuss Geisel and has become one of my most popular school a...
Monday, February 03, 2020

2020 Summer Dates Filling Fast!

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Booking the best entertainer, speaker, presenter, magician, for Texas SRC Summer Reading Club can be a challenge. One of the problems th...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Asst. Lib. Dir. kills City Council Member in Cage Fight

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January 11, 2020. Last night a tornado ripped through the Friendswood area destroying fences, knocking down trees, and redistributing all ma...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

RPGs: Like Playing Barbie, but with rules

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I've been thinking of the best way to inspire YA participation in the 2020 SRC. The owners of the D&D franchise describe the iconi...
Monday, December 09, 2019

How I Became a Professional Magician

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Texas Author and professional magician, Julian Franklin In Texas I'm known primarily as a magician who does author visit assembly sh...
Monday, December 02, 2019

The Best Texas Summer Reading Program Artwork I Could Find

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"The Storyteller"©Scott Gustafson; all rights reserved As I try to create the best, fun, magic puppet show, artwork is an im...
Friday, November 29, 2019

It's not a Motivational Talk if The Audience Doesn't Change

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Does “published Texas author” automatically mean “great educational assembly presenter?” I just got back from an event where I was hired a...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Optical Illusion...or MAJOR Mistake?

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Have you ever seen one of those pictures where you see one thing, and then after a while you see something else that makes you realize y...
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Monday, August 05, 2019

I'm Really Getting Into this 3-D Printing Stuff!!

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For those who don't know, we own an old, historic home built around 1853. We're only the 4th family to own this home and the prev...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Downloads for some of my 3-D printing files

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One of the things that's been very encouraging with this new show is how many kids are genuinely interested in the robot and the idea ...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Improving the Battery Life of RD-3D

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A week or two ago I blogged about how Making involves a lot of trial and error. Lots of problems come up, work out a solutions, maybe it wor...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Updates on RD-3D now that he's done a few shows

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The one thing I've learned as I've really gotten into the Maker Movement is that rarely does anything work right the first time. You...
Friday, May 10, 2019

RD-3D is Finally DONE!!

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It is such a relief to have him all completed and know that he works like I want him to. Everything he does is programmable. That is, I...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

My Robot has New Wheels and a Name!

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New Wheels and a Name So the robot toy I bought has lopsided wheels. That's by design. When he rolls forward, it makes him wobble s...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Foundations of a Robot Puppet

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While in my local Lakeshore Learning teacher supply store I spotted this little toy on a discount shelf and snapped it up. I "knew...
Friday, February 15, 2019

More on writing this summer's Robot-ish show

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So the basic story for this summer (at least I THINK this is what's going to happen, but things change as the show unfolds), is that the...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Writing the new show: Take Me to Your Readers

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Without a doubt, the hardest work I do is writing a new show. Marketing and scheduling and travelling and bookkeeping and graphic design a...
Saturday, February 02, 2019

When Everybody Plays, We All Win

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Does it reveal my biases that I already have a favorite commercial from this year's Superbowl and it's still more than 30 hours ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

I also Present for Adult

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This past weekend I was invited to lecture on two different topics at an international convention of children's entertainers. The eve...