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I was so appreciative last month when the teachers let us know about the boys having a big homework\u00a0project. The main idea was\u00a0that each child would learn\u00a0about some part of their own culture, research\u00a0it and then create one\u00a0of several possible projects\u00a0to display their culture knowledge at a school fair\u00a0(which is this Friday).<\/p>\n

And then, 4 weeks went by without me doing a darn thing.<\/p>\n

Well, it was due tomorrow so I spent about 2 hours with Maximus and Brenda sat with Andrew for about the same time and we produced two posters for the boys. Both of which I need to pickup from Kinkos at 6am tomorrow so that they have them in time for school.<\/p>\n

So apparently a deadline can be so far in the future that you don’t even worry about it until it’s too late.<\/p>\n

During the process not only did we talk about the different things that we learned, but the boys had a first hand look at some of what you can do with a computer and photoshop. For me personally that was part of my motivation to use the computer – I wanted to get them interested in being creative with it.<\/p>\n

Here are the results of cramming for just under 2 hours.<\/p>\n

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I was so appreciative last month when the teachers let us know about the boys having a big homework\u00a0project. The main idea was\u00a0that each child would learn\u00a0about some part of their own culture, research\u00a0it and then create one\u00a0of several possible projects\u00a0to display their culture knowledge at a school fair\u00a0(which is this Friday). 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