Sesame Street‘s 39th Season kicks off on Monday, August 11 with new segments, musical performances, parodies and cast members. Broadcast in HD, this season will feature new street scenes that will bolster a child’s math vocabulary. In one notable segment, Will Arnett plays Max the Magician, whose tricks may not be magic, but math! Indeed. [...]
Cue the funk. It may have been the coolest show about reading ever, and it’s coming back. The Electric Company, “Refitted for the age of hip-hop and informed by decades of further educational research on reading,” according to the New York Times, will return to public television in 2009. “It’s the old one mixed with [...]
Now you can travel at the “speed of thought” — everywhere you go. Janet’s Planet, seen locally on NPT, is finally available on iTunes. To download the album ($9.90) just visit iTunes and search for “Janet’s Planet.” You’ll see this icon: The popular Janet’s Planet, created and hosted by Janet Ivey, is a series of [...]
“As important as all of our programs are, the most important time is when the program ends and the television set is turned off” — Fred Rogers Fred Rogers would have turned 80 today. [youtube="http://youtube.com/watch?v=s8lXurBreqQ"]
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVeyLr2fGNA"] In honor of what would have been Mister Rogers’ 80th birthday on March 20, 2008, Mr. McFeely – aka David Newell, the public relations director for Family Communications, Inc. (the nonprofit company founded in 1971 by Fred Rogers) — has a special request. “We’re asking everyone (including members of the media) everywhere (from Pittsburgh [...]
I can’t believe I’m only discovering this wonderful post now. At the Mental Floss blog, Mangesh makes amends for mocking Mister Rogers. “Back when I was in 7th grade,” writes Mangesh, “I stood up in front of my English class and delivered a tongue-in-cheek, poorly researched presentation on why I thought Mister Rogers should be [...]
Should you feel guilty if your children spend a lot of time in front of the TV? Here’s a book review of Lisa Guernsey‘s Into the Minds of Babes from the Opinion Journal that’s been making the rounds of the office.
Every now and then I like to hunt around YouTube for fun Sesame Street clips to post, like my favorite “Bert’s Blanket,” or that fantastic Steve Wonder performance of “Superstition.” The quality is often spotty, and the clips, sometimes pulled from VHS tapes I imagine, are grainy. Now comes news from essential daily read MuppetCentral.com [...]
WordGirl is one of several new kids shows coming to NPT this Fall. The New York Times says “The loquacious central character from the Planet Lexicon and her monkey sidekick, Captain Huggy Face (who sometimes takes the bus when WordGirl forgets he can’t fly), have an irreverence and sophistication that stand out among the generally [...]
Each season, the producers of Sesame Street discuss the educational needs of the show’s audience and often decide on a theme or focus, wrote Peter Johnson in USA Today. After 9/11, it was “resiliency.” For the past few years it’s been healthy eating. This season, which starts today, it’s literacy. The Tennessean has an amended [...]
