Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Every once in a while something clicks and begins to make sense. This morning it happened on my way to work as I was driving on mental auto-pilot. I really am thankful for the 25 minute drive to work because if I lived closer I wouldn’t get the uninterrupted time to think that driving for [...]
Posted in Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning, robotics, teaching technology on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Saturday (March 15th) I had an opportunity to lead a workshop for the local Expanding Your Horizons conference sponsored by the Ridgecrest Women of Math and Science. This amazing conference is open to middle school girls and is designed to encourage girls to pursue non-traditional careers in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) areas. [...]
Posted in Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning on November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Friday was the local high school Preview Day where we had about 150 kids come to the college to see what we were all about. Josh, Dominick, Warner, Eric, and Jarrod helped set things up and man the table. It was fun, like usual, and I had a chance to meet several potential students (I [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Cerro Coso Community College was well represented at the Desert Empire Fair this year with three different exhibitions - the general college booth, the Automotive Hybrid Car booth, and the Students Intrigued by Technology booth. I think I was at the fair almost the entire time and it was a wonderful opportunity to talk about [...]
Posted in Computers, Students Intrigued by Technology on March 31, 2007 | No Comments »
How do geeks spend their first weekend of Spring Break? Parting out old Pentium I, II, and III computers, of course. Our club is working with the campus IT department. We provide the manpower to sanitize hard drives, salvage usable components, and sort parts into recycle stacks. In exchange, the club gets to keep [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning on March 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I told Gavin the other day that he could only be a card-carrying member of the Nerd Herd when he could recite his favorite quote from Monte Python, verbatim, and with the appropriate accent. We have created a shared culture in this group, one that revolves around Python Quotes, curiousity about new technology, lego robotics, [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning, robotics on March 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m almost recovered (with emphasis on the ALMOST) from the Nerd Herd World Tour. I’m finally recouperated enough to write up the last day. We had a 15 passenger van and a car or two in our caravan, travelled about 700 miles total, visited two University of California campuses, and got to see inside a [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning, robotics on March 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Stardate Intergalactic Time: 190324.1519.40
Yesterday (Friday) morning started off with breakfast at UC Riverside (again, we got a LOT for our $3!) before meeting up with a campus tour guide to take a tour of the entire campus. We learned the UCR was founded as a land grant agriculture university and that they have created [...]
Posted in Creating Community, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning, robotics on March 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s what I’ll be doing for the next few days. Taking about a dozen of the nerd herd and heading south. It’s gonna be a blast!
Thursday
Arrive at Cerro Coso library parking lot 8:30am
Leave Cerro Coso 9am
UCR Lunch - noon
Tour of UCR VisLab (http://vislab.ucr.edu) - 2pm Led by Rui Li, PhD student
The Visualization and Intelligent Systems [...]
