The Muppets were effective teaching tools because children easily recognized them, they were predictable, and they appealed to adults and older siblings.
The Muppet segments of the show were popular since its premiere, and more Muppets were added during the first few seasons. The Muppets were a crucial part of the show's popularity and it brought Henson national attention.
He also agreed to waive his performance fee for full ownership of the Sesame Street Muppets and to split any revenue they generated with the Children's Television Workshop (renamed to the Sesame Workshop in 2000), the series' non-profit producer. Henson was initially reluctant but agreed to join Sesame Street in support of its social goals. Author Christopher Finch reported that director Jon Stone, who had worked with Henson previously, felt that if they could not bring him on board, they should "make do without puppets". Henson's involvement in Sesame Street began when he and Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the creators of the show, met in the summer of 1968, at one of the show's five three-day curriculum planning seminars in Boston.
The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson, many for the purpose of appearing on the children's television program Sesame Street. I'm making use of the DecoratedText class (an information widget) which does have terribly minimum html formatting available.įull disclosure: this was originally inspired by the KeyValue class which has unfortunately been deprecated.Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets, was initially reluctant to work on Sesame Street, but joined due to social concerns of the time.
pro tip: while you will find yourself constrained by the pre-made ui interfaces, it is worth noting that the card services are designed to behave in the most optimal way while extending add-ons across all of google's services (hopefully, to all mobile apps in the future as well ??) and by extension, worth getting used to! It was an interesting learning curve while building card-based interfaces as i didn't want to rely on the same old html-css bundle (not that i'm complaining ?) – there's plenty to unpack here with their widgets and action elements that can be configured in a multitude of ways. I also happen to be making use of apps script advanced service and so it was important that the manifest was set up accurately as well + the add-on config was no joke either and had to be meticulously tailored to accommodate all key-value pairs that were needed – enter, the manifests for google workspace add-ons documentation.
the deployment process – i got to experience working with the 'test deployment' feature that allowed me to seamlessly install it as a workspace add-on (this was detected and picked-up using the manifest specifications).