Dr. Wren's Incredible Hoverpark of Wonder

Wondrous Jetsam Inspiring the Series.

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Vintage linens upcycled into a lovely apron! Learn more at GardenFest Etc. Plant City Sept 24th. #plantcitymainstreet #gardenfestetc

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Cutie Mark Crusaders ! #gbg4 #grandbronygala #gbg16 @arlenevonderporten (at Sheraton Tampa East Hotel)

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At the Grand Brony Gala! #gbg4 #grandbronygala

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Wright Bros workshop reconstructed with a canvas wing. #Hoverpark #maker #firstflights

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So excited for the @grandbronygala this year! Come join us www.grandbronygala.com #grandbronygala #hoverpark

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This is great news.

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Oh thank god.

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Well, that's a comfort.

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I just told a teenager I could get more likes on my pinkie toe...

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Shark Attacks of 1916

A map of the 1916 Shark Attacks in NJ, commemorating 100 years ago starting July 1st. Follow this amazing history plot by plot...

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Florida Frog framed

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Because sampling 1930s cuisine was so… enlightening, staff at our @amhistorymuseum​ decided to try their spatulas at some World War II-era dishes. 

They experienced first-hand the effect of wartime rationing at home. With limited ingredients allowed for each household, period cookbooks found creative ways to make familiar, appetizing meals while also minding nutrition concerns. 

Gelatin, ever-wiggling gelatin, had not gone out of style since the 1930s and was now being touted as a healthy and affordable way to stretch rationed foods into family dishes. The 1943 cookbook “Knox Wartime Recipes: How to be Easy on Your Ration Book” calls tomato jelly (above) a vitamin-rich treat. (If you say so.) 

These baked fish molds and cheese potato puffs (below) used a type of corn flake cereal to make them more filling and include whole grains. 

Despite the restrictions, cookbooks kept an upbeat tone and presented rationing as an act of patriotism supporting the war effort. 

— “A taste of wartime rationing in 1940s product cookbooks”

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Food is always a great way to connect to history and culture!

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Something Super Cool Just Turned Up in Your Digital Toolbox

The Smithsonian unveils a game-changing online tool designed to empower anyone to discover and use digital museum resources

We’ve just launched an online tool to put more than 1 million digital resources at your fingertips. 

Learning Lab is designed for teachers and students, but it’s open to anyone to explore everything from botany specimens to blog posts, to customize personal collections, and to build on each others’ work with notes and education tools in a collaborative community. 

Discover, create and share at learninglab.si.edu.

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You MUST try, use, share, build, and discover with Smithsonian Learning Lab - we are SO excited to make and build from other people’s collections. 

Congratulations Smithsonian Education and Smithsonian Learning Lab on the launch of this beautiful resource-tool-toy! 

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Great development and use of digital museum resources!

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Today. #ithinkican, #hoverparked, #gimmeasecond

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Having a great time at the GIF-a-thon at the National Archives Innovation Hub! I gave a presentation on how to make GIFs, and we used the resources of the National Archives to try it out! 

The first is a simple video-to-gif using an online converter. The video is Curious Alice, a video that you will have to see for yourself. (That’s all I’ll say.)

The next two demonstrate ways to create gifs out of static images. This one is of the Capitol Building. (We heard the Archives are asked about aliens all the time. The truth is out there…)

Finally, we used the @nypl Labs Stereogranimator to bring to life this stereogram, In lower Geyser basin. Yellowstone National Park.

Fun times! Thanks to @todaysdocument, @usnatarchives, for inviting me! (They’re telling me to plug @ourpresidents and I am a compliant guest. No, really, give them some love!)

I have the presentation on my Dropbox until I can find a better place for it, in case you want to check it out.

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Great ideas and execution!

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Themed sprawl and decay. Planet Hollywood - Pleasure Island, Walt Disney World

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#Repost @writers_bloc with @repostapp. ・・・ Inside the National Library of Catalonia. Today's Literary Cities post is from Barcelona. Link in bio. #amreading

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Exploring Hoverpark

For more information on the Point and Learn interactives in Dr. Wren’s Incredible Hoverpark of Wonder see my latest post. 

http://shellydrummond.com/exploring-hoverpark-point-and-learn-interactives/

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Mona❤️