NokoPods

Jason Parks, author of the Wondercurrent series: Rella PenSword and the Red Notebooks, talks about his writing process. How does he form a new story from weeks of notes? How does he pace himself through a long series? How does he get feedback? How does he market to a middle-grade audience? Listen in to hear his story!

2D pixel artist Gabriel drops by to discuss how he got into spriting, how to balance self-taught skills with school learning, and what we're working on together for our school project!

Steph Smith recently wrote a book, Doing Content Right, about creating and marketing online content! We discuss her neverending quest for finding better tools, making an online identity, and encouraging kids to create!

Turner Wright writes the travel blog: Once a Traveler. His mantra: Travel makes you uncomfortable in so many ways that your body and mind are forced to adapt to new circumstances with each passing day. This makes wanderers people of high quality, and runners the best travelers of all. We deep-dive his running habits and how he documents his travels.

June Zhang is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Hawaii with a deep passion for books. We deep-dive her reading habits and discuss her process of publishing findings in research journals!

Dr. Jeffrey Barnes, author of The Wisdom of Walt and Beyond the Wisdom of Walt, joins the NokoPod to discuss

(1.) his most recent trip to Disney World amid the pandemic,

(2.) his research process for the books,

(3.) his thoughts on Walt's original vision of EPCOT and why it hasn't come to fruition, and

(4.) his vision of the City of the Future!

Aaron Cybertron Zheng has always been a competitive gamer, but he is most well known today as content creator of the YouTube series Road to the Ranked. We deep-dive his early playing days and discuss how kids today can apply their gameplay into their real life pursuits.

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Gui Rambo and I discuss the potential of augmented reality as a platform on which we look forward to developing apps!