Category: Projects

Turning an Old Laptop into a Video Kiosk

My father-in-law came to me with an interesting idea. He wanted to create video kiosk for our church which would play videos on different mission o... Read more

Hacking Together an Auto-Tweeting Spreadsheet

A while back, I had looked at automating tweets from a Google spreadsheet to reduce the insane number of clicks it takes to do in TweetDeck and Hoo... Read more

Piping You the Emails

Months ago, I turned off Jetpack on my blog. I use WordPress and Jetpack is a package of apps which handled email subscriptions, comment management... Read more

Graduate School Final Project

I promised Stacy Lovdahl I’d post this the other day and then promptly forgot. Sorry, Stacy. I took a graduate course on curriculum development and... Read more

Updating the getText Extension

In October, I wrote about a bookmark application to get the text of a website for analysis in the Lexile analyzer tool. It’s a pain in the keister ... Read more

Updated Student Response Template

A while back, I wrote about a new Google Sheets response system I created for use in class. I suggest you go back and read that first if you haven’... Read more

Cleaning up PHP functions

Last year, I took some time to write a small blog theme for Anchor CMS using some PHP and a lot of CSS. Too much, if you ask me. If I had the time,... Read more

I Need Your Help

I'm not in trouble, though. I mentioned yesterday that I'm leading a conversation at Saturday's NovaNOW conference in Grand Rapids. The topic: Flip... Read more

Science, UDL, and Lesson Design (Maker Experiment 2)

This post is a revision of the original experiment I posted two weeks ago. The main purpose of this is to add more elements of Universal Design for... Read more

Astronomy Project – Day 10

I made some quick additions this afternoon to my GitHub repo for this project, which I’ve renamed to PySky. I had to do some research on the Pyephe... Read more

Astronomy Project – Day 5

I worked a little bit tonight on my code while Lindsey got to bed early while the baby napped. I added a menu at the beginning of the program which... Read more

Astronomy Project – Day 4

I’ve been dabbling a little bit every day with this project and I’ve made some big changes since day 1. First, with some help from Brandon Rhodes o... Read more

Astronomy Project – Day 1

This is kind of a long story, but stick with me, because I’m excited about it. Introduction Earlier this year, I set a goal for myself to learn Pyt... Read more

Where is all the time? #ds106 #4life

I saw a post this afternoon about a new section of #ds106 starting for a five-week summer course. I’ve dabbled in the Daily Creates from time to ti... Read more

#MACUL13 Round Up

I had the chance to attend MACUL’s (Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning) 2013 conference held in Detroit this past week. I have a l... Read more

#FlipCon13 Fliers

The 6th Annual Flipped Learning Conference is being held this June 17-19 in Stillwater, MN. Registration is open, and I took it upon myself to gene... Read more

Spring Service Projects

This spring, I’m asking my homeroom students to perform some type of service project. The type of project is up to them, but I’ve encouraged them t... Read more

Watch the MI Flipteaching Conference Free

On Saturday, January 19, over 150 educators from across Michigan and northern Indiana are converging on Byron Center High School to spend the day t... Read more

The People of Flipped Learning

School is getting started again for just about everyone and as flipped learning becomes more and more popular, we’re all looking to make connection... Read more

The Flipped Classroom in eSchoolNews

I wrote an article with Aaron Sams regarding common perceptions and misconceptions surrounding the flipped classroom in an effort to move the discu... Read more

Flipped Classroom Exit Letters

I asked my students on the last day of school to write letters to next year’s students, whoever they are. I took all of those responses, removed th... Read more

Three Example Flips

In response to some emails and tweets I received on my last post, I decided to write three short examples of flipping that can happen at varying le... Read more

The #Flipclass on NPR

I was given a unique opportunity today to join our local NPR host on a show entitled The Trend. The first half of today’s show was about new classr... Read more

Coming Soon: Weekly #Flipclass Chat

With the discussion about the Flipped Classroom gaining steam globally, I thought it was about time we begin to connect in real time. I emailed Jon... Read more

New Flipped Class Article

I co-wrote an article on the flipped classroom with several other outspoken flipped class advocates. It is posted on thedailyriff.com, but I can po... Read more

Educator, Learner

This morning I’ve been reflecting on the last year of teaching and what growth I’ve had and what growth I still need to accomplish. My first attemp... Read more

Flipped Class Manifesto

I was at Woodland Park High School in Woodland Park, CO last week at the 2011 Flipped Class Conference. This is my second year at the conference (... Read more

Notes on Organization

As my website and work has grown, I’ve tried to organize my resources and files a little bit better. There were some in my blog, on the main page, ... Read more

Bragging on Students

I love opportunities to brag on students that do some great work. As often as I can, I’ll send something in to Twitter or other teachers in our sc... Read more

Student Lab Manual Finished

My AP Chemistry class has published their final draft of a general chemistry lab manual. You can see and download the student edition here or you ... Read more

Letting Go

As we head into the end of the school year, I’ve done a lot of reflecting on the content I was able to finish this year. I am fortunate in that I ... Read more

Changes That Are Coming

After having most of this afternoon to mentally decompress from everything that happened this weekend at ETC11 and after a 2-hour advice session fr... Read more

The Mol Project

I started teaching the concept of the mol (not the animal…the amount) in chemistry this week. The problem is, the mol is such an impossibly large ... Read more

Coming Up: Student Periodic Tables

Part of the mastery system is assessing students through their own, unique work. For this next unit (beginning today) students have an opportunity... Read more

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