Standup Workstation Update My parents brought me a great present for Christmas to improve my standup workstation. The shoes in the picture were also a gift courtesy of my great mother-in-law. I am pretty sure […]
Education is Social
Education Is Social One of the themes I have been talking about a lot over the last month or so is that education is a social activity. We cannot just throw a teacher and a […]
ABCs of Computer Security
Teaching Security to a New Generation I was invited to speak on computing security this morning to a group of high school students here on campus. The talk is in Spanish which puts me at […]
Flip your Class Tec de Monterrey
Evangelizing the Flip I am heading up a project to lead those at my campus and institution who want to consider flipping their classrooms. If you work with me at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Tec […]
Smile for your Students
Back to Engagement I wrote about engagement before and how important that is. In my experience I have had the best success in reaching my shy students by getting to know them at some personal […]
Open Classroom
Personal Open Classroom Challenge I have been intrigued by an open classroom model for a few years now in order to expose my students’ work to a wider community. I’m probably going to make the […]
Planning for CSEdWeek 2013
Computer Science Education Week – CSEdWeek @CSEdWeek is near and I plan to do a couple different activities on my campus (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara which is in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico). I am planning on […]
Do Flipped Classrooms Make No Difference?
The discussion on Flipped Learning is definitely getting more press and I believe that is a good thing. Hopefully this leads to all of us to reflect on our roles as educators and how best […]
Intro Sessions – Flipped Classroom
Upcoming Courses Just a quick post to let people on campus (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara) that due to popular demand I will be offering three more sessions of the introductory course on flipping your […]
Save your Files in Dropbox for Revision Control
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 […]