If you are looking for some summer fun, consider CLMOOC, a highly flexible online collaboration of educators exploring Connected Learning and maker education. If you’ve heard about maker ed but aren’t quite sure what it is, this is a great
Kids Maker Day 2014
This year’s kids maker day is over, and it was a great success. The planned program is shown here. When we hold this annual local event, we never know how many kids will come or what ages they will be.
Make with Me: Remixing as Recycling
[cross-posted from iAnthology] Welcome to the second iAnthology “Make with Me.” Again, these “make” projects are super flexible, so please feel free to diverge from the suggestions in any way you like. This month we’re going to take some household
Make with Me: Food!
Over at the NWP’s iAnthology site, we’re starting a monthly “make with me” project. For a variety of reasons, this site is restricted to members only (feel free to join!) so I am going to cross-post the “makes” here as
Make/Hack/Play Together
I am facilitating a new 3-week mini-course starting on Nov. 4 called Make/Hack/Play Together. It’s free and should be a lot of fun. You can sign up here.
Kids' Maker Day
Inspired by the #maker movement, #clmooc, and others, I put together a local kids’ maker day this weekend. This was a part of our local Heritage Days event, for which I’ve been helping coordinate a kids’ activity day for a
A unique opportunity
I believe that we have a unique opportunity at this moment when districts all over the country are looking at new curriculum and assessments. We can either see this as an opportunity to innovate and improve learning…or we can just
Scratching the surface
For a long while, I’ve been planning to dive into Scratch, a programming environment where you can make your own stories, games, programs, etc. Now that I’m in the Learning Creative Learning MOOC from MIT, it’s time! Here’s an intro
Kids photo challenge = great fun + creativity + learning
I am a big fan of DS106, the digital storytelling MOOC (group? online course? community? it’s a mix, I guess), and especially of the Daily Create project there, which is a way to encourage myself to create something on a