A Tribute to Maker Dads Everywhere

In honor of the National Week of Making and the upcoming Fathers’ Day celebration here in the States, I collected a few videos related to Maker Dads for this week’s Phun Phriday post. Check out this link to a video showing Dads who got together to make a “Wipeout” course for their kids on their … Read more

Online Summer Courses

If parents and students have been asking you about ways to stave off that summer slump, here are some online courses that I have been suggesting to the parents and students in my community: Camp Wonderopolis: Free, and you can sign up as a “Camp Counselor” to tailor the curriculum if you like. Maker Camp: … Read more

DIY Gifts for Kids

It’s Friday!  And you know what that means, right? Okay – other than the fact that tomorrow is Saturday, or that many of us in the education world are about to have a two-week break. Friday + December + Engage Their Minds = Another Installment of the “Gifts for the Gifted” series. Since it’s a … Read more

DIY

Don’t worry; I promise this is not going to be an advertisement for a home improvement network… DIY is one of the coolest new sites that I’ve chanced upon in a long, long time.  I haven’t even shown it to my students yet, and I am super excited about it.  This is going to be … Read more