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In Moana 3, every Friday we have our TinkerLab challenge... last week we started our challenge with CREATE.   Creating, Thinking, Problem Solving, Collaborating! We have our big junk box and our challenge this week was to create a vehicle that was powered by air out of a balloon.   Most of us worked in buddies and created many different vehicles.   We soon realised that we had to have free moving wheels and we had to think hard about how the propulsion from the air coming out of the balloon was going to move our vehicles and where we needed to attach the balloons - did we blow them up first or did we have to attach them and then blow them up?  Lots of critical thinking! There was lots of practicing, taping and re-taping, modifications, changes and discussion! At the end of our 30 minutes we had a SHARING session with each other where we looked at each other's creations and discussed what modifications we could make for next time.   We then di...

This quick-tip is about removing the coloured section that is in the background in Blogger's Travel template. Recently, I've been using the Travel template a lot:  it just seems to line things up more sharply on the page. Today I noticed that there is an option for setting the Sidebar background colour under the Template Designer > Customize > Advanced tool.  However it doesn't seem to work. Investigating the template shows that as well as this sidebar background colour (which is correctly set by the option above), the template also specifies a background image  (ie not a colour) to use in the sidebars.    This isn't removed when the overall background image for the template is removed, and cannot be controlled from the template designer. But it's simple enough to get rid of it, by following these steps: 1    Edit the template in the usual way. 2   Tick the expand widgets checkbox. 3   Find this code: background: $(widget.outer.back...