A group of my students worked on robotics this semester. As their final project, they had to design an obstacle course, build it, and program the robot to navigate it. Their course was dubbed “City of Destruction” because of the resemblance. The students are Ben in the 9th grade, Gavi in the 6th grade, and [...]
Archive for May, 2007
What happens when you give kids the chance to build stuff? They come up with some pretty cool ideas! Take the doorbell in an Altoids tin, built by a 12 year-old and posted on do it yourself website Instructables. How cool is that? A middle school student figured out a cool project then took the [...]
Thanks to 43 Folders for the link to this one: An Interview with Ze Frank. For a year, starting in March 2006, Ze Frank produced a daily video called The Show. I found episodes at times thought provoking or enlightening but always funny. Several episodes merited my showing them to high school students (see the [...]
I wrote a cute little webquest about traveling to another place and writing home about sights seen. It started merely as a project to demonstrate that students can use email effectively. I think, though, that the webquest could also be used in a social studies classroom (maybe with some minor modifications) or even a language [...]
(from xkcd with the hat tip to Jon Shannon via 2 Cents Worth)
As I prepare to install Ubuntu on some older computers at school, I am inspired by this librarian’s Ubuntu story. My computer needs constantly outstrip my ability to purchase new hardware. Which explains why I’ve been meaning to give Linux a shot at some of the older hardware I have. There’s plenty of discussion about [...]
I ran across Georgia’s Virtual Vault after googling for old pictures of downtown Atlanta (the gem I found is from a V-E Day Parade). According to the site, much of the digital content is the result of scanning for customer orders — which explains why the information is all over the map. Here are a [...]
