George’s Moving Art Machines is live on the ARTHUR website and PBS KIDS Games app.
George’s Moving Art Machines is an extremely flexible HTML5 art tool, allowing endless variations in four themes: shapes, lights, characters, and sounds.
Players select art assets; place, customize, and connect them; then set them in motion to make amazing kinetic art!
This game is unique and a lot of fun, and its quality is a direct result of the tremendous efforts of Gentry, Kal and Nolan.
Our pilot video series Search It Up just won a Public Media Award at the 2021 NETA Conference. “The Public Media Awards honor our members’ finest work in education, community engagement, marketing/communications and content. This year saw a record number of entries from stations across the country as new categories were introduced recognizing excellence in podcasts and digital media use as well as awards in each category specific to the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Join Arthur, Muffy, Buster, and Mr. Ratburn as they celebrate “An Elwood City Thanksgiving,” a new digital game from PBS Kids. It’s on the ARTHUR website and in the PBS KIDS games app.
Visit the four families, serve up holiday food, and then help with some wonderful family traditions by making a thankfulness poster with Arthur, donating food with Muffy, taking in a traditional Native American harvest with Buster, and baking a delicious cake with Mr. Ratburn.
And don’t forget the family photos! So come visit, and see there’s more than one way to celebrate Thanksgiving.
And “An Arthur Thanksgiving” premieres this Monday on GBH 2 and the PBS Kids Video App!
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Nice write-up from Bay State Parent about Search It Up.
Go snowboarding with Molly and Auntie Midge!
Learn cool new tricks using videos and books, and practice your moves in the Freestyle area in out latest game for Molly of Denali.
Our snowboarding adviser for this game was Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, an Olympic snowboarder and the first Alaska Native to make an Olympic team.
This dynamic HTML5 game is available at both the Molly of Denali website and the PBS KIDS Games app.
Go Team Molly!
ARTHUR’S PUPPET THEATER offers three classic fairy tales designed as interactive stories, all performed by ARTHUR characters. First, choose from three stories: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, or Goldilocks and the three Bears. Then enjoy the show, with YOU as the director! Cast the actors – Arthur, D.W., Muffy, and Buster – in the roles you want, then lean in to make fun decisions to guide the story.
Would you like a more traditional Little Red Riding Hood, or perhaps the more swashbuckling Little Green Pirate Hat? Do you think Cinderella would prefer the electronically inclined Prince-Bot 5000, or the diva-tastic Prince Megastar? And should a hungry Goldilocks choose the bowls of porridge, tacos, or spaghetti and meatballs? Whichever you decide, there’s more fun right around the corner with more choices. And when you reach “happily ever after,” you can begin again with new choices. So come enjoy some classics as only ARTHUR can deliver!
For ARTHUR’S PUPPET THEATER, GBH worked with Two Moos.
Here’s an article Bill wrote at PBS KIDS for Parents about helping kids discover what’s real and what isn’t online.
Our award-winning Molly of Denali app now features our two newest games, Alaskan Adventure where players can explore local wildlife and help Molly take pictures for her vlog and Veggiezilla where players can grow vegetables in the garden!
This app is the 2020 Winner of the Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media award from the American Library Association.
Discover how everyday kids use technology with Search It Up! a delightful, new mini-series from WGBH and PBS Kids. Real kids talk about how they use the internet, navigate with GPS, keep in touch with family, and have endless fun with phones.
The series was produced with support provided by Internet Essentials from Comcast and is currently available through the Android and iOS versions of the PBS KIDS Video app as well as the other PBS KIDS video platforms including Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast and PBSKids.org/video for desktop.
The first video is also here here and the remaining 8 follow once you start watching.
The full series can also be found at the PBS KIDS channel on YouTube.
The project was devised and produced by Senior Executive Producer Bill Shribman and it builds on his prior work in media literacy with the Ruff Ruffman: Humble Media Genius project.
Bill says, “This is a pilot and my first foray into live-action video production so I was delighted to be in the capable hands of videographer and editor Geoff Adams. We worked in a fairly unscripted fashion with the kids. Luckily, we had our third and final shoot complete in February before the virus hit. All post-production then took place under lockdown conditions.
The whimsical illustration and design was provided by Digital’s Jesse Haley, with editorial support from Gentry Menzel, Deb Frank, and Kimberlee Manora in Children’s Media and Education with Alan West holding up the business end of this maverick operation.
Digital Things! 