Create a loveable robot pet with the micro:bit. How does your pet show love? How does your pet receive love?
Continue reading “For Girls Tinker Academy, Sonoma State”Help Pete Find His Beat
Most people don’t know this, but there is a reason Peter Cottontail always came hip-hoppin’ down the bunny trail.
He was a famous DJ, and he loved to make music. Though the secret to his music lived in his tail.
One day a terrible DJ accident happened and Peter lost his cottontail.
Now he is just known as “Pete who lost his beat.”
Can you help Pete find his beat?
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Colour Tower
I remember taking a risk in 6th grade art, though at the time, I didn’t know I was. Using British English to title my drawing “Colour Tower” made perfect sense to me. I was reading the Chronicles of Narnia at the time, and thought it was cool how the words were spelled differently than I was used to. The word “colour” felt exotic to me – like much more vibrant colors emerged when you spelled it that way.
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Photos from my trip to Morocco to promote STEM Education for Women’s History Month, March 2019
Continue reading “#moonshotmorocco”Chimps, Chocolate, and Computational Thinking – Goodie Bag
Resources from a 2018 presentation
Continue reading “Chimps, Chocolate, and Computational Thinking – Goodie Bag”A First Draft In Two Voices
This is a post in two voices that lives in two places. You can read the other version at Bud’s website. In this version, my voice appears in italics and @budtheteacher‘s is in the other.
It’s been a few weeks now since Katie Henry and I met up at reMAKE Education to run two sessions of a workshop that has me more excited than I’ve been about a workshop in a long time. I’ll get to the excitement part – but first, a bit on how this came to be.
It’s actually quite a story. And it starts, not with a conference proposal, but with a business card. No, that’s not true. It begins with a brownie.
Continue reading “A First Draft In Two Voices”Start with Low Hanging Fruit (Resistance is Good)
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Have you ever started a new project with a team when someone declares, “THIS is the low hanging fruit. We should start here because [this thing] is right in our faces”?
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