As one of my summer campers put it today: we could call this China Town but that was in Old Town, so maybe Asia Town is better?
Portland, the city, did a number of things to push much of China Town out of Old Town, including adding some sculptures with negative Feng Shui. I'm sure the higher rents didn't help.
In any case, the growing edge of Portland's Asian community is outward from SE 82nd, a state highway under the control of ODOT, as Friend and Wanderer Lew Scholl has oft reminded me.
I'm working in an Asian mall on SE 87th, as a part of the Learning to Code movement. Coding with Kids is a lot like Kumon, in terms of supplementing where parents perceive the school system may be weak.
As a matter of fact though, Portland Public Schools have a lot of affinity for MIT Scratch and for all I know are also using Codepen.io and other such cloud-based sandboxes.
Daniel Shiffman (Coding Train) provides many exemplary Youtubes helping kids overcome the digital divide. Although we don't teach P5.js or Processing at Coding with Kids, we're on the same train.
Like most teachers, I like to decorate my classroom and so brought along a few items from the Oregon Curriculum Network inventory. The cube especially, the least stable, of the set, is looking the most battle-scarred (see below). These are volumes 1 (tetrahedron), 3 (cube), 4 (octahedron), 6 (rhombic dodecahedron) as anyone math-literate will likely recognize.
Some campers, when not huddled over their Chromebooks, take a break disassembling and reassembling some C6XTY.
Today I stopped at K&M Auto Service on the way home to see if they'd have time to fix my driver's side power window on the Nissan. They said they'll take a look later this week. I also need my passenger side mirror replaced.
Portland, the city, did a number of things to push much of China Town out of Old Town, including adding some sculptures with negative Feng Shui. I'm sure the higher rents didn't help.
In any case, the growing edge of Portland's Asian community is outward from SE 82nd, a state highway under the control of ODOT, as Friend and Wanderer Lew Scholl has oft reminded me.
I'm working in an Asian mall on SE 87th, as a part of the Learning to Code movement. Coding with Kids is a lot like Kumon, in terms of supplementing where parents perceive the school system may be weak.
As a matter of fact though, Portland Public Schools have a lot of affinity for MIT Scratch and for all I know are also using Codepen.io and other such cloud-based sandboxes.
Daniel Shiffman (Coding Train) provides many exemplary Youtubes helping kids overcome the digital divide. Although we don't teach P5.js or Processing at Coding with Kids, we're on the same train.
Like most teachers, I like to decorate my classroom and so brought along a few items from the Oregon Curriculum Network inventory. The cube especially, the least stable, of the set, is looking the most battle-scarred (see below). These are volumes 1 (tetrahedron), 3 (cube), 4 (octahedron), 6 (rhombic dodecahedron) as anyone math-literate will likely recognize.
Some campers, when not huddled over their Chromebooks, take a break disassembling and reassembling some C6XTY.
Today I stopped at K&M Auto Service on the way home to see if they'd have time to fix my driver's side power window on the Nissan. They said they'll take a look later this week. I also need my passenger side mirror replaced.
