Max made it with us on the US Department of Education's National Educational Technology Plan website. Woohoo!!!
You can visit the site here.

We made it in our local paper, the West Side Leader, this week. Thanks to Karen Ingraham from APS for writing an excellent article about Max and Room 215.

Wooo Hooo!

West Side Leader Artice

You can watch the video of our Skype call with Max and her creator Mr. Weinberger in the video section of this website. We had a wonderful time sharing with Mr. Weinberger. At one point he asked us about toys for Max. We suggested a toy duck that squeaks. Mr. Weinberger liked our idea and had his graphic artist create a mock up of Max squeezing the toy. Thanks Mr. Weinberger for a great experience and a chance to meet you and your dog Max.

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It's the end of the school year. Students have worked with Max each and every day for 15 minutes since April 2nd. The intensity is still the same! What's going on??? Must be learning and fun at the same time! ;-)



Thanks Max!

Headline: The whole unit fell from 5 steps up on the stairs and Max (and I) survived!!!

I brought the units home over the weekend to debug what I thought was a syncing problem. I found out that I was being impatient with the sync process and the power cord had to be just right in the "box". So, this morning at 5:50, I am bringing the 3-box unit (all connected together) with my brief case, and school bag down the carpeted stairs to the living room to deposit all on the floor and get breakfast st… Continue