Podcast Highlights, Part I

Posted by Danny on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 6:28 pm

(I usually write these posts by hand before putting them up, which means, I think, somewhat less horrible prosody that may otherwise happen, but also, that I can be side-tracked and my posts are either lost or terribly delayed.  And, because I don’t date the writing in my notebooks, I have no idea how long ago this was intended to go out.  The timestamp is a guess—I actually posted this on May 31, 2011.  Appy-polly-logies, absent reader base.)

Both of the projects planned for Exploring Our World at Youth Group have come to nought: attendance is too spotty and folks are too tired coming straight from school to generate a consistent sort of participation.  We got one good petition-planning meeting in, with fun, Mark-Thomas-style discussion, but our political machinations petered out; as has been the practice in the past, it’s been just me bringing in neat things, so the Web of Awesome has similarly failed.  Alas.

But!  While there’s been sadness there, I have discovered a few exciting things that have occupied much of my time and may pleasantly occupy yours.

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Exploring Our World meets Mark Thomas

Posted by Danny on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 5:28 pm

For the last year and a half I’ve been working with Jenny to host “Exploring Our World” out of St. Clements with the older Youth Group Kids.  This is billed (defensively, by me) as a “Secular Enrichment Class on Sundry Exciting Topics,” but essentially means I get to talk with intelligent and interested highschoolers about neuroscience, astronomy, ethics, and music.  Programming, for the most part, has been semi-prepared (read: spontaneously inspired) (alternatively read: slapdash—deleted as applicable based on the results after the fact, typically), but we’ve just started a couple of long-term projects that I’ll be following here and wanted to tell you about.

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