4Kids.org - Week of August 3, 2008

Week of August 3, 2008

Visit the Featured Web sites to find the answers.

What is the human barrier?

not having access to human beings with ICT literacy
mental illness
new movie coming out this fall

Where did Max Simon grow up?

Gary, IN
Huron, OH
Carmel, IN

When was “Horseman and Buffalo” painted?

1975
1976
1977

Catching Up

Appreciate your access to technology at e-Divide: Information Inequality, http://library.thinkquest.org
/05aug/00036/index.html. Many kids aren’t aware that not everyone is able to become tech-literate. Take an eTour and learn about the digital divide that affects millions around the world. Then browse the Sub-Topics to discover the reasons for the divide, such as physical, digital and human barriers. Want to help? Get pointers at eSolutions, where you can uncover ways to help bridge the e-Divide and make use of current technology.

Nominate a cool Web site at
4Kids.org/nominations

Calling Comic Lovers!

Step into all things comics at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis’ Comic Book Heroes exhibit, www.childrensmuseum.org/ special_exhibit/comics/index-entry.html. Family Activities has some great ideas to celebrate everyday heroes, such as writing your own family comic, or maybe pick up your markers and draw your family as superheroes or villains! Add some color to your favorite comics in Games and Activities, and expand your comic book reading with cool suggestions in What Comics Would You Like? (This site is no longer available.)

Hansen's Talented Hands

Explore Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings at
www.seattleartmuseum.org/
exhibit/interactives/gaylen
Hansen/index.html, where you will find artistic insights from the artist himself. Scroll through some of Hansen's work in the Image Gallery and see if anyone starts to look familiar. Click on Who is the Kernal? to see why this image appears in many of Hansen's pieces. For a firsthand account, visit “A Naïve Style,” and then listen to Hansen describe his art as you scroll though cool audio clips at the bottom of the page.

What is your favorite comic book?

Speak Out Here!

Musical DNA

What kind of music do you like to listen to? Maybe you like pop music but not certain pop songs. This is because every song has a different set of qualities, or musical “genes,” that make it unique. Since 2000, the Music Genome Project has analyzed songs from tens of thousands of different artists, mapping their musical genes. These genes include everything about a song, including its melody, rhythm, whether it's acoustic or electric, the qualities of the singer's voice and even more.

You can try out the results of this project at Pandora Internet Radio, www.pandora.com. All you need to do is specify an artist or a song to create a free, personalized radio station. The station plays songs with similar genes to the artist or song you specified. You can even create as many different stations as you want. If you want to save your stations to listen to in the future, you'll need to register with Pandora. Ask a parent for help if you want to register. You can find out more about the Music Genome Project at www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml. Have fun!

—Amy

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