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Boolean Squared: Pulling Pranks on the Teacher
Jan 15th
I was riding in a car with a friend the other day. She uses her TomTom GPS to tell her where to drive and I kept getting startled by the voice (I have never used one before). I thought it might be funny to have the kids pull a prank on Mr. Teach by installing the voice of Urth into Mr. Teach’s GPS unit and the best person to turn to for help? Why, Jenni Peg and her mighty brain, of course.
Peace (in the prank),
Kevin
Boolean Squared: JPeg and Japan
Jan 13th
How does Jenni Peg know so much about tech? It helps that she lived in Japan, right near the sector of blocks where most of the technology gadgets that the world sees is created and sold. The area is called Akihabara and it is the heart of the gadget world. Plus, who wouldn’t want a mechanical monkey?
Peace (in the peg),
Kevin
Boolean Squared: Urth Gets Schooled
Jan 12th
More of Jenni Peg, who shudders at the thought of conventional thought. I don’t imagine Urth has ever met anyone like Jenni.
Peace (in the way things are done),
Kevin
Boolean Squared: the Tech Cabal and Jenni Peg
Jan 11th
The boys begin to realize the potentially powerful mind of Jenni Peg in Boolean Squared today. Have no fear, though, she will soon become one of the gang as they all play a trick on Mr. Teach (that sequence comes later this week). I wrote Urth today talking about new ideas because I found myself running a bit short. Ack.
Peace (in the ideas),
Kevin
Boolean Squared: In my old school …
Jan 7th
My new character, Jenni Peg, gives Boolean some info about her old school where the most interesting part of her learning experience was done in spite of the teacher. I hope that is not the case in your classroom. Or mine.
Peace (in the frame),
Kevin
Boolean Squared: Girl Tech Power
Jan 6th
I am still introducing my new Boolean Squared character, Jenni Peg (Jpeg), and she gets some questions from Boolean. She also lets it be known that she won’t be a meek and quiet girl, but don’t worry — she will not become some annoying genius, either. Like any new kid, she is just trying to stake out her turf.
Peace (in the peg),
Kevin
Introducing … Jenni Peg
Jan 5th
It’s a new year and time for me to introduce another character to my webcomic, Boolean Squared. Since the comic has been overrun with mostly boys in the main roles (Mom and Cylene the Cyborg are girls, by the way), I was asked (by Tina) to add some another female character.
I had been mulling over the idea of adding a new student to the class so it made sense for her to be a girl. I want the new student to be smart, a bit prickly, and much younger than Boolean and Urth — sort of a technology prodigy who has advanced up a few grades.
Her back-story will involve living in Japan for a bit, so that she can talk about the block of businesses and vendors in Tokyo where all cool new tech is introduced to the world.
I asked my PLC network for some cool names for my new character, and Jennifer Brandon — who also came up with the idea for the i-invention that Boolean created earlier — suggested Jenni Peg, or Jpeg. I loved that and would never have come up with that myself. Plus, using Jennifer’s name gives her some props for helping me out with idea.
So, introducing: Jenni Peg
Peace (in the frames),
Kevin
Boolean Squared: Mr. Teach Declines
Dec 30th
This is the last installment of my Children of the Screen sequence of comics for Boolean Squared. I thought it would be cool to add an Avatar reference to the strip today (you know, my characters are all over that) and how 3D movie making is not quite there yet.
Peace (in 3D),
Kevin
Boolean Squared: Teachers as test subject
Dec 29th
Here is another in this series of Children of the Screen comics with Boolean Squared. I thought it would be funny to have the boys use something they learned from Mr. Teach (the Scientific Method) for their project in creating a holographic e-reader. Mr. Teach doesn’t find it quite so funny.
Peace (in the method),
Kevin
Boolean Squared: More Children of the Screen
Dec 28th
This is the third installment of my Boolean Squared comic around kids growing up in the world of screen literacy. With the world awaiting news of Apple announcing some sort of iSlate or ereader thingamabob, I figured it was time to get my characters into the action. As usual, they will take the idea a bit too far.
Peace (in the chip),
Kevin
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