Bits of Plastic
I’ve been in school for about a month and our 3D printer (a Printrbot Plus) has been running almost every day throughout that time. We are starting to collect little bits of plastic stuff around the...
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Making is Hard
The students in my class are discovering something this year: making things is hard. As I’ve been tweeting and writing about, I’ve managed to secure two 3D printers for my classroom this year. I’ve...
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Choosing a 3D Printer for the Classroom
3D printing is an exploding technology. The printers are definitely one of the hottest things on the technology market right now that you can buy. While some schools have had these printers for a few...
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3D Printers and Classrooms
I made a move last year in my classroom towards making things using technology. While I’ve been an advocate of this philosophy for a while, last school year I tried to work on this more “formally,”...
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I received an email from Pearson Publishing the other day. Attached to it was a pdf that they wanted me to sign authorizing a few authors to use the blogging rubric that I had created a few years ago....
View ArticleStudio Time Update
A little more than a month ago I wrote a post called The New New Silent Reading. In it, I talked about my changing plans for my silent reading time. I think that time like this is important to have in...
View ArticleOur Day Project
I don’t usually post links any more. That’s what I’ve got a twitter account for. But I thought this one was worthy of its own post. The 26 minute video below was produced in Australia by...
View ArticleMobile Marking
I ended up with an ipad this summer. While I’ve had both an android tablet and a Blackberry Playbook, this is the first school year where I’ve tried to use a tablet as a teaching tool. One of the...
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Passionate Creators
Picture from Mattias Inks Alec Holowka Talks at Pecha Kucha from IndieGame: The Movie on Vimeo. I’ve always loved the blog Mattias Inks. It’s like having a steampunk art gallery showing up in your RSS...
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Teaching Alexander
This is a picture of my two sons. Christian (left – without the gun; he’s not grouchy honest, just a bad time for a picture.) and Alexander (right – still without the gun). I took this photo in...
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