Dropbox for Scratch Files I save my scratch code for showing to students in Dropbox for various reasons but mainly so I can get to the code from any computer I happen to be using […]
Yes I think kids should code.
Is it worth teaching young kids to code? Mark Guzdial’s “Computing Education Blog” is at the top of my personal list of education blogs to follow, there is always good content and great insight there. […]
This Thank You is for my Students
On Monday I attended a nice ceremony to receive an award for being among a group of faculty that have “left a mark on our students”. Apparently this puts me in the top 5% of […]
Standup Workstations update
Update on my Standup Workstation So I posted back in July about my standup workstation. I had just started using this setup and wanted to post about it. That was two months ago so I […]
Flipped Classroom Course and Notes
I will be teaching a professional development class this week on Flipping the Classroom (Thursday from 3pm-6pm) and we are already receiving requests for other sessions for those that cannot make it. I sure hope […]
A Passion For Reading
A long time ago a very special grade three teacher planted the seeds of a love for reading in her classroom. She would take time each week (if I recall correctly) to read books to […]
Standing Desks
A couple weeks back I posted on Google+: “If this is good enough for +Kevin Michaluk then I can definitely see using this at work” (link to post here). I figured instead of waiting around for my […]
First Post
Yes, I finally managed to get a faculty webpage created. Special thanks to Salvador Alva for his support in getting this project moving and also to the fine folks at SIT for their help in getting […]