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#teachtheweb: weeknote 24/2013

Jun

2013

During the last week of the 2012-2013 school year, I puttered about Packing my classroom and moving out of my “old” school and division. Helping my co-facilitators launch #CLMOOC, the making learning connected collaboration from the National Writing Project and Mozilla. Joining #teachtheweb as able. Need to do more in the next few weeks. Reflecting ...

A PBL post-mortem

Jun

2013

TL;DR: Between gigs, Chad looks back on a year of project-based learning. Project-based learning (7th grade) This past year I had the unique opportunity to run a project-based learning (PBL) class at my last school. While I structured the course around #ds106-like assignments for middle schoolers, I tried to keep as much choice open as ...

#teachtheweb: weeknote 23/2013

Jun

2013

This week I wound up Worrying how to motivate kids to finish their web portfolios until peer mentors stepped in and helped classmates get the job done. Cutting over a thousand words from an article I overwrote. Composing a hacktivity kit around remix, drawing games, and webmaking. Joining conversations on the #teachtheweb G+ community and ...

The kid

Jun

2013

Somehow I have had the honor and humbling privilege to address our first three classes of 8th graders as they headed off to high school. This year’s class, like those before it, occupies its own unique place where my heart and mind meet amidst all my wishes about what school could be. We are nearly ...

TL;DR: I am changing school divisions in 2013. 2

Jun

2013

I am excited to announce that I have accepted a teaching position at Shelburne Middle School in Staunton, VA, for the next school year. I feel profoundly grateful for the opportunity to take what I’ve learned about teaching, learning, and myself at the Community Public Charter School and to apply it in a larger, “micropolitan” ...

#teachtheweb: weeknote 22/2013 4

May

2013

Crunch time. This week I whiled away the hours Learning to program small Python scripts for Minecraft: Pi Edition. Dropping in on #teachtheweb as often as possible. Watching the #ds106 zone from afar. Playing with the LED patterns in a student’s Arduino mediated 3×3 matrix. Planning for the upcoming #clmooc from the National Writing Project. ...

#teachtheweb: weeknote 21/2013

May

2013

Kind of a blurry week, but I remember Learning to make LEDs blink using Python, IDLE, Terminal, Raspberry Pi, and its Cobbler kit. Playing with Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi using Python commands in Terminal Watching the first 3×3 LED matrix of a student’s 3x3x3 Arduino light cube project come to life. Catching up on ...

The License .pdf

May

2013

Here’s a .pdf of my new banal-dystopia, near-future ed sci-fi short story, “The License.” I’ll add links to the story in a few more e-reader formats as I figure’em out. The License If you have any questions or other feedback, please comment below or join the conversation on CoöpCatalyst where “The License” originally appeared.

#teachtheweb week 3: learning on the open web

May

2013

This week on #teachtheweb, I thoroughly enjoyed the open web and the freedoms it affords us to create and play (and play and play) with friends from around the world. I also appreciated the chance to reflect and build on what open means. Essentially, I took the opportunity to play with new friends and our ...

#teachtheweb: weeknote 20/2013

May

2013

This week I spent time… Collaborating on an open learning web comic and web app prototype with #teachtheweb friends. Remixing a kindergarten Star Wars stop-motion film into “Are you my Star Wars?” Working on a short, splashy, silly webpage-as-mix-tape for an upcoming event. Sewing conductive thread, LEDs, and a not-yet-functional photo-receptor into Flappy the Sea ...