Educational Cartoons from WAY back

Friday, June 5, 2009

I'm working away on my spreadsheet assignment while simultaneously gathering ideas and supplies for my upcoming video. Class and time are going by very quickly and I have a lot of work to get done. I did want to stop and share a memory from years ago...something that used to go with Saturday morning cartoons. They are just as relevant now as they were then and as much fun to watch:



Find more of these little cute Schoolhouse Rock videos by clicking here.

It is amazing how these little tunes that I learned from and enjoyed as a youth are now available at the touch of a few keys. We used to have to wait on Saturday mornings to see what the new one would be. Now I can watch the entire series by Googling one and following the links to all of the rest of them. The more I get into new things on my computer, and on the web, the more into this technology the more I like it. I can see why it caught my kids' attention when I was so busy doing all my "Mom" stuff and letting them explore the computer. I think I'll soon be able to have a knowledgeable conversation with my oldest son, the awesome computer geek. :)

We didn't think of these little cartoons as technology. The View Master was a big deal to us. Even thoug h there were instruments that showed individual slides similar to this hundreds of years ago, and of course we had no idea of tha t at the time, it was big stuff to us. But then again, this was when TV's took "tubes" to work and the front had two or three dials on t he front to adjust the channel, the volume, and hopefully the picture quality.

Photo credit: Kolk, Melinda. vmaster.png. November 2002. Pics4Learning. 22 Jun 2009