Weekends are pretty busy these days for the kids. Swim lessons for Daniel, soccer for James. Sprinkle in some cleaning, prepping for a spelling test, we don't necessarily always give them a lot of time to do something new.
But I think it is high time I did something new with James. He has been bugging me about posting pictures of his Lego creations to the Lego club. Well I think it is time to teach him some basics about pictures and loading things to the web.
The week before Easter Kim & I came across 2 Clone Wars photo kits at Goodwill, fully sealed. These are basically toy digital cameras with a 90 picture memory. In addition they come with photo editing software that is designed around Clone Wars. So tonight I plan to challenge James to build or put together a Star Wars set for Lego. Be it a spaceship, or a space battle or ground battle, something like that. I will let him use the pool table and he can leave his creation up.
Then tomorrow night I will give him and Daniel their camera kits. And have James take his own pictures of his creation. Then I will show him how to load the pictures to the computer and edit them. Once he is done I will post the finished shots here, and show him how to send them to the Lego web site. It's a weekend long project.
My goal is to demonstrate what I do with pictures. And the joys of doing something with a computer other than playing a game. This won't take the place of soccer, and I still intend to take the kids on a long walk on Sunday (weather permitting). But I think James is ready to take the next step with technology.
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