Blog posts
Blog posts
About a year ago, I decided to teach myself how to use the Godot game engine. It's a powerful, open source engine that's good for making 2D games...
My 12yo is into retro gaming and has recently become obsessed with Portal. He decided he wanted to make a weighted companion cube PC case...
I’ve been wanting to build a greenhouse with my 5th grade students for a couple of years. I knew it would be a chaotic process but I finally bit the bullet...
As an educator and school IT director, I’ve been inundated lately with AI triumphalism. Every morning, my inbox is full of emails from start-ups and legacy...
My paternal grandmother was Danish. She died before I was born but growing up, I knew her sisters and brother–my great aunts and uncle. My great aunt Zeta...
There are a lot of reasons to dislike ‘AI’ (I put quotes around it because it is artificial but it’s not intelligent)...
I've never liked the band that my pixel watch came with but I also don't really like any of the options I've found to replace it. So, I decided to make my own...
I ran across this hand-wringing WSJ article recently which bemoans the European proclivity to...
My Fall CUE presentation is titled ‘Robotics + Cardboard + Hot Glue = Catapults’. Below are links to the materials...
I’m working on a middle grade fantasy book called The Bone Flute. The book, perhaps not surprisingly, features a magical flute made from a vulture’s wing bone...
I’ve read A LOT of books featuring neurodivergent characters. Why? First, to find good books for my own kid. Second, to see what else was out there...
One of my favorite books growing up was A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin. The original edition was illustrated with wood cuts by Ruth Robbins. I loved...
At my school, we have four pillars that represent our values and philosophy: Character, Community, DEIJ, and Academic Excellence...
I have a word problem. The words are Disorder, Deficit, Disability, and Disease. They all start with the letter D but that’s just a coincidence...
I’ve been making bread for a while now and I’ve tried lots of recipes. Why bother?...
I'm writing a new middle grade fantasy book that features a stone age flute...
There is a bird family nesting in a potted palm hanging from a beam in one of the outdoor atriums at our early childhood center...
I was invited to present at the Make: Education Forum 2022...
For those who like things sweet + tart + smokey + spicy, this is my favorite cranberry sauce recipe...
Since the beginning of the pandemic, board game sales have skyrocketed. I thought it would be fun to have 5th graders design and build their own board games...
This is my super simple, basic granola recipe...
Thank you to everyone who attended my presentation...
My son loves waffles but I don't love how he acts when his blood sugar plummets an hour after eating them. So, I came up with this high protein, high fiber waffle recipe...
As a quarantine project, my son and I created this text based adventure game. He designed it and I helped him program...
I’m teaching an intro to Python elective this trimester. The students are learning the basics via the Codecademy intro course and then they get to try
I recently did an LED circuit project with a group of first graders. It was challenging to figure out a way to make it easy enough for their limited fine motor
My son is in a bit of a Trolls phase right now...