Kevin - It's fun talking with you! I have also been accused by people in the same way. "Please don't use those silly tricks on the executives" - I do anyway, they love it. "Isn't Accelerated Learning just giving people little toys? Just playing music? Blah, blah?" Nope, AL is about using the individual way a person learns best to learn. Everything in my classroom may look 'fun and light' but it is (mostly) designed specifically to target brains AND meet the learning objectives. Games for games sake are wrong. Activities to improve evaluations are wrong. ANYTHING that improves learning is RIGHT. I think you and I are on the same page. It's all about the learner. I'm going to have to look up Padawans... Lou Russell