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OCTOBER 26, 2007
A friend has been trying to prod me into this blog for some time now. I have been resistant mainly because I don't know a lot about blogging and even more important, I'm not really comfortable with the technology behind the formatting and capabilities of the various blogware programs available.
So, anyway, I will try to follow the advice read in Jeff Atwood's blog http://www.codinghorror.com/blog (I know there is a way to make this a hyperlink but I don't know what it is right now - I will work on that for the next blog). Jeff says, in a nutshell, you just have to establish a discipline about the whole thing. Start writing and keep after it on a regular basis. Don't expect instant results.
By way of background, I am an Educational Software Vendor of a small Virgina-based company that has a great, high quality 3D creativity software application called GollyGee Blocks. Our site is found at http:www.gollygee.com. Our product is geared at K-8 students and helps them with problem solving, critical thinking and spatial reasoning. GollyGee Blocks could be characterized as a "kids 3D modeler" but I prefer to think of it as a classroom tool that allows kids to put their ideas down in the 3D world we live in. A picture is worth a thousand words is the old expression - GollyGee Blocks provides the student with the tools to develop scenes using geometric forms and pre-defined objects that can be textured/colored and manipulated with a series of transformational tools (e.g. lift, stretch, scale). The ideas for the scene are based on the particular curriculum themes the kids are studying, be it math, language arts, social studies/history, art, or science. If you go to the website you can download a GollyGee Blocks demo. Try it! I guarantee you'll find it interesting and educational.
Here is a scene from one of my files that shows the capabilities of GollyGee Blocks.
Edited on 1/3/08.