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 […]
Creating Videos for Flipping Your Classes
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcq9Lzbr0w8] As part of my experiment in flipping my classrooms, I searched for options for producing videos. My university campus provides support to create fully produced videos but I wanted something lightweight that I […]
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. […]
Make Office Hours Attractive to Students
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aMcXBsLQLY&w=140&h=105] Office Hours I used to set my office hours and really not be concerned about promoting them beyond the obligatory publishing the available hours in my course syllabus. The video here (courtesy of […]
Engage Your Students
This afternoon I received an email from one of my students of the typical “I am really embarrassed to ask you and this is probably a dumb question” type. You know the type of question, […]
Eating Healthy, Eating Primal?
The 2013 Primal Blueprint 21-Day Challenge just kicked off this week over at Mark’s Daily Apple. I invite all of you to take a look at this as well as the rest of Mark’s site. […]
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 […]
