The “Fake End”: Helping Students Overcome Stuck Moments in Their Projects
You’ve seen it before. A student who was once deeply engaged in their project suddenly announces, “I’m done,” even though it’s clear they aren’t. Or…
When Students Resist Their Own Projects: Understanding the Why and Re-Engaging Them
It’s one of the most frustrating scenarios for an educator. A student who was excited about their project yesterday suddenly wants nothing to do with…
Starting Smart and Cheap
I’ve always believed that great things can start with just a few dollars and a lot of heart. Schools, in particular, often face the challenge…
Version 3 is almost ready
I have the new mission and anchors of this site are ready – I have a lot of work to do for it to live…
Entrepreneur projects and resources
Entrepreneurship is a process of creating something from nothing, and it requires creativity, courage, and hard work. It involves taking risks to develop ideas or…
Still at it…
This site seems like a dead project… but it isn’t. Innovative Arts class is really taking shape. I have light up signs for the Vital…
Teaching TinkerCAD to beginners (Older videos version)
Everything you need to know on how teach TinkerCAD to beginners.
The transformation continues…
Creating this thing was never going to be easy. (Whoa – as I typed that, the autosuggest finished it as ‘never going to happen’ –…
Problems that come with a makerspace, solved
Below are the problems that I have been struggling with for years. Each one has been a huge mental load and each is on the…
Turtle Art – Getting started in a middle school classroom
Here is the link to the coolest way to learn coding! https://www.playfulinvention.com/webturtleart/ (You can also Google ‘Turtle Art’ to get there fast) Lesson 1 Part…
Gaining Steam
It has been a few months since I was daily blogging… and what crazy few months it has been. This summer, I collected and distilled…
Prioritizing things
I loved blogging each night for those hundreds of nights. I want to get back to it but I also have been making sure to…
Looking at goals with students
I stumbled into something a while back – students are uncomfortable with expressing high goals or ambitions for themselves. At least in a large group…
Coming back fresh
I had a streak of about 240 blog posts in a row before this past break. I imagined I could be like Seth Godin and…
Projects to make an awesome classroom
Here I shared all the work that went into making what will someday be the ‘world’s coolest classroom. It is still a work in progress!
Edtech isn’t going to fix education
I waited and got my hopes up high that technology was going to start to transforming education. That didnt happen. Things are changing but we…
Learning by creating
We need to be giving kids more opportunities to create. Just straight up create. We can list all the reasons it is difficult or expensive……
Something just as important as hard work
I made this video to say something important that I think we ignore in our schools. I consider it just as important as ‘hard work’…
The 21st century classroom…
The term ‘The 21st Century classroom’ was such a buzz word back in my college days. There were such high hopes for technology to change…
Adding stories about vulnerability and authenticity to my story bank
I’ve been surprised a number of times as I fill in this story bank and tonight is no different. 39 stories about being vulnerable have…