It’s here! This week is Computer Science Education Week. (Check out the Google Doodle to honor Grace Hopper’s birthday, which starts CSEd Week this year!) To celebrate, you are invited to participate in an Hour of Code – a global event during which schools are committing to teach students how to program for at least … Read more
What do you do when you have 24 students on their way to a Robotics Club meeting and you find out from a technician that your laptop hard drives have mutinied and need to be re-imaged? If you are like me, you consider asking the technician if he would like to switch jobs for the … Read more
It’s been getting a bit harder to access all of my scattered Augmented Reality resources lately, so I decided to create a page for this to add to the blog. I was going to use a pretty Symbaloo, but apparently my blog host does not play nice with their embed codes. I won’t go into … Read more
UPDATE 10/12/2021: This particular page is no longer available, and colAR is now QuiverVision. However, you can still download an augmented reality pumpkin page here (do a search for Halloween once you reach the page, and you should see two downloads. Unfortunately, they are no longer free). I tweeted about this a couple of days … Read more
I couldn’t wait until Phun Phriday to share this post. So, I’m officially declaring today Thrilling Thursday! On Tuesday, I saw a tweet from @techminock (2 Guys and Some iPads) about an app from FuelFX. After responding to Drew’s tweet, I got a tweet with the link to the app from FuelFX, and an invitation … Read more
My colleague, Daryn, pointed me toward this app a few weeks ago, and I finally had the chance to download it and try it out this weekend. North Star Smart Stars Survey is an iPad app produced by Fablevision. It was designed by Peter Reynolds (author of The Dot, Ish, The North Star, and other books) … Read more