Posted in Teaching and Learning on March 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »
This was sent to me on Facebook…
If you haven’t heard it yet, this is the Most Amazing Lecture…. Please take 10 minutes out of your busy life and listen to this guy. He’s very inspirational to say the least. This is the college professor who’s dying. This is the version he gave on the Oprah show.
For the full 76 minute version, watch:
Randy’s website: http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
Posted in Cool Tech on March 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
In case it wasn’t clear… I have an iPhone. The lines are blurring between communication spaces and I envision a time when communication by any medium will be transparent and ubiquitous. How freakin’ cool is that?
So far, I think my favorite feature is the text messaging threaded into conversations. What an awesome way to track messages between different people!
Posted in Cool Tech, Teaching and Learning on March 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I am posting this from my new iPhone! There are still a lot of things I need to figure out, like how to type on this better, but the UI is nothing short of amazing! I haven’t been this excited about a new technology like this since I discovered all of the cool ways you can interface with Twitter!
Oh. Wait. That was just the other day.
Did I ever mention how much I love learning about new toys and new tech? This is a cool time to be an ed tech eductor!
Posted in Creating Community, Teaching and Learning on March 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
So, I have no internet access in my office today because of the network blowout that happened last week. They have the lab computers working however, so I am sitting out here in front of my office getting stuff done. I really should do this more often. It’s funny listening to students and what they talk about… chit chat, class work, weekend activities, comments about teachers and classes. It’s like being on the other side again. Maybe all teachers should sneak into the “real” world once in a while and get a feel for what students REALLY think!
Posted in robotics, Students Intrigued by Technology, Teaching and Learning, teaching technology on March 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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. It is held at Michelson Lab on base, which is a very interesting location in itself. This year they had 158 kids from schools all over our local service area. I even saw a school bus from Lone Pine in the parking lot!
Our workshop was titled “Mission to Mars” and was a collaborative effort of several people. Cerro Coso students Rachel Schlick and Michelle Montemayor helped brainstorm the scenario. Astronauts were landing on Mars and had to race the Aliens to the home base. Rachel led the way with robot design and programming while Michelle took the lead in the artistic arena to transform a plain white box into the red planet, steaming volcano and all. We worked into the wee hours of the night on Friday to get everything ready and loaded into my Suburban, and met up at 7:45am Saturday to go to the conference.
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