Episode this time is 8.5 MB. I had to use an FTP client to upload the thing. That’s how much I care. Powering Up With Technology conference was awesome. Minecraft shows potential as a tool for student learning in the classroom. We’ll see.
Author Archives: theartguy
Academic Aesthetic 169
Moving right along. Â In today’s ‘cast, I ramble on about: My county’s Sharing Technology with Educators Program, or S.T.E.P. My new favorite Android App (still), AndRecorder, which I keep calling “AndRecord” because long names are abbreviated below my little phone icons. Gimp.org, because it’s free and awesome. SumoPaint.com, because it as well is free and …
Academic Aesthetic 168: Quarter End Reflections
Today I teach my last classes of the Quarter, so as I reflect on the first 9 weeks I’ve asked my students to do the same. Next quarter will be different. Â Why? Because it has to be. Oh, and the programming language I couldn’t remember? Scratch.
Academic Aesthetic 167: It’s ALIIIVE!
It’s about time I started publishing these again. Show Notes: Today is Day 3 with no intranet in my computer lab.  More like this and I’ll start showing withdrawal symptoms. Replacement Technology = switching pencils for pens, but having students write the same things. Disruptive Technology = throwing out the pencils and pens to do something that …
What I Teach
Want to know a secret? A deep, dark secret that I’ve kept off this blog for over a year now? One that will shock you? Well, too bad. I’m going to tell you anyway. Ready? Here I go … I’m not a part of my school’s Art Department. Yeah, that shocks me, too. Here’s a …
Return to Technology Concepts
School starts on Monday. No, no that’s not true. For me, School started several weeks ago when I came in during the Summer to put my lab back together. (The custodial staff needed me to break it down so they could move the desks and wax my floors.) I found out only recently that many …
Climbing The Wall
The photo above is the front wall of my school. On the day I stopped by to interview for my position (one of the best career choices I ever made, in my honest opinion), I saw this wall and thought “If I was a few decades younger, I’d try climbing that.” Indeed, with all of …
Paper “Transformer” Reaction
Here’s a quick video response to this video I found on YouTube that shows how to make a 3D paper sculpture that can be bent along hinges in different ways.PaperTransformerReaction
Summer To-Do List
In no particular order, perhaps simultaneously: Build up Teachers20.com, hopefully recruiting others so that I don’t get that nagging feeling that it’s a one-man show any more. Spend some more time looking at a pastime of mine through the eyes of an educator. Take more photos. Leave more footprints (I need to exercise more). Get …
Going Public
For a variety of reasons I’ve decided to make 3 of my World of Warcraft characters public knowledge and start blogging about how what they’re doing relates to education. I will not be doing that here. While I do think that posting about World of Warcraft would stay within the bounds of the “Art, Education, …