Hey folks! Paul here, with the first Thunder Thursday since… (checks calendar) 2018, oh my. Anyway! There have been some fun events & opportunities lately with the books, and wanted to share some videos.
(Today–November 12–is my birthday. So I believe everyone’s legally required to watch.)
I hope you enjoy, and if you know anyone looking for online educational content, please send them to thundercluck.com/schools!
Hey folks! Paul here, back from a far-too-long hiatus. 2020 has been quite a year–I hope everyone’s hanging in there!
When the THUNDERCLUCKbooks first came out, I really enjoyed doing author visits to schools. I’ve now made an online version of my presentation, and it features a drawing demo from the one-and-only Meg Wittwer (@rawranansi), the mastermind behind TUTOR TUESDAY!
The preview above is 90 seconds long, and there’s a link at the end to the full presentation. If you check it out, I hope you enjoy! And here’s a quick GIF with the gist of it:
Thanks for checking it out–hope to post more soon!
Hey folks, Paul here for THUNDER THURSDAY! Couple quick updates:
Tomorrow I’m visiting a high school in Southern Pines, NC to give animation demos for computer arts classes. I’ll be showing how to make the gifs above in After Effects–looking forward to it!
On the OpenToonz front, I’ve written my first tutorial outlines and gotten a mic for better audio quality. I’m looking forward to recording soon, but first I need to finish some book stuff and hope that my head cold clears up.
-when picking your classes, avoid any Theater Arts and opt for Agriculture instead -be careful when choosing a roommate…you just never know what kind of shenanigans they will try to pull -don’t base any expectations on “Pitch Perfect” -don’t watch “Pitch Perfect”
Korea has long attached great importance to the secondary education and enforced universal compulsory secondary education system, the first of its kind in the East, in November Juche 47 or 1958. It has been fully guaranteed by the free education system. Since then the compulsory secondary education system has developed systematically. In Juche 56 or 1967 the universal 9-year technical compulsory education was enforced, which closely combines the secondary general education with basic technical education, and education with productive labor. And in Juche 61 or 1972 the universal 11-year compulsory education was enforced for the first time in the world. So all the new generations could receive the completed compulsory secondary education.
The Law of the Supreme People´s Assembly of the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea “On Enforcing Universal 12-Year Compulsory Education” was promulgated on September 25, Juche 101 or 2012. The universal 12-year compulsory education system is a development of the universal 11-year compulsory education system and a new high stage of the secondary general education system. During the systematic 12-year education including one-year preschool education, 5-year primary school, 3-year junior secondary school and 3-year senior secondary school, the rising generations are taught general basic knowledge and modern basic technical knowledge to complete their secondary general education.
During the 5-year primary school pupils acquire basic knowledge of the nature and society, preparing themselves for all-round secondary education. The 3-year junior secondary school teaches the pupils secondary general basic knowledge and the 3-year senior secondary school, basic technical knowledge useful in reality in line with the demand of the era of the knowledge-based economy while completing their secondary general knowledge. In Korea a change will be brought about in the contents and qualitative level of the secondary education thanks to the universal 12-year compulsory education system.
The education of the rising generation is an important issue related to the future development of the country. The Workers´ Party of Korea paid deep concern to education even during the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War against the US imperialists in the 1950s. When the US imperialists provoked the Korean war on June 25, 1950, the great leader President Kim Il Sung reorganized the educational work on a war footing and wisely led the struggle to actively promote it even in the difficult circumstances. PresidentKim Il Sung saw that separate lessons were given at schools of different levels and the schools were equipped with air-raid shelters for the life and security of students and evacuated some educational organs to safe places.
Kim Un Gyong, lecturer of the Jonsung Revolutionary Museum, says:
“It was not easy to continue education in the difficult conditions of the war. In Pyongyang City alone, buildings of universities and colleges and tens of secondary and primary schools were all burnt and destroyed by the brutal US imperialists. President Kim Il Sung aroused the whole party and people to the struggle for rehabilitating the destroyed schools and ensuring the educational conditions and wisely led the work to keep training teachers to fully meet the demand for teachers.”
President Kim Il Sung called back the scholars and university teachers from the front to keep writing textbooks and sent a large quantity of paper for publication of textbooks and study of the students during the war. Though the transport of war supplies was on the strain, he took revolutionary measures to transport a large quantity of textbooks, education materials, experimental equipment and teaching aids. His warm love for the rising generation is brilliantly recorded in the history of the Fatherland Liberation War.
In the difficult circumstances of the war, President Kim Il Sung provided all conditions for successful education and called back students from the front to the universities and visited a university under a shower of shells. And he taught that the students should study hard for the motherland to win the war. He also kindly taught the educators about the revolutionary method of education applied during the anti-Japanese armed struggle and took all measures for teachers not to feel any inconvenience in their life. Under his loving care, the school bell rang far and wide as an echo of victory during the war as well, weighing down the cannonade of the enemy. Indeed the bell rung during the war was a bell of love, a bell of victory rung by President Kim Il Sung. Now the education of Korea has been developed onto a high stage of the universal 12-year compulsory education under the wise leadership of respected Kim Jong Un. The education of Korea will make a greater progress thanks to the correct education policy of the Workers´ Party of Korea.
the fact that community colleges are seen as less valid and for “stupid” people is a result of classism and in this essay I will-
ppl in the tags saying that it’s “genuinely a lesser tier of education because people go there for trades and nursing and thats about it” are just proving that its classism. bc a) no thats absolutely not correct. a good chunk of people that go to community colleges do so to knock out their gen eds at a lower price than they’d be if they went to a four year, then transfer to a four year. and more importantly b) trade professions are not lesser than other professions that take higher degrees. people who go into things that take associates degrees are not “stupid”.
if you think ppl who are too poor to attend a four year university for all four years, or that ppl who are too poor to/don’t want to get their bachelor’s/master’s/doctorate are “stupid” then i have news for you:
thats classism, babe
I would not be where I am today without having gone to community college. Not only did it help me take my breadth requirements near home, but I was able to take other classes I was actually interested in with some of the best teachers I’ve ever had. Examples:
history of science
medieval English lit
linguistics
American art history
Marine biology
Seriously, don’t shame people for going to community college, and don’t poo-poo community colleges! Try them out for yourself. You may find them a better experience than some ivy leaguers out there.
Your brand new episode of Sir Approves is live and waiting for you, Kitten. This episode : What’s wrong with men??!! It’s not often you’ll find me angry, so jump on in to this one. Boys, have a listen. You might learn something.
How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole | Veritasium
We are about to see the first image of a black hole, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. But what is that image really showing us? This is an awesome paper on the topic by J.P. Luminet: Image of a spherical black hole with thin accretion disk Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 75, no. 1-2, May 1979, p. 228-235 https://ve42.co/luminet
