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Interview with Daniel V part 2
I realize this is a bit late, but here’s the second half of the interview with Daniel about the place of video games in school. Interesting young man! Looking forward to seeing what he decides to do...
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Games and Learning (and LearnBIG)
I’m very proud to have an article about the state of educational games published a few weeks at gamesandlearning.org! G+L is a fantastic outlet for anyone interested in educational games. For those of...
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Newton’s Laws
Finally! After months of waiting, I’ve finally put together another PwP video. Check out the video below for a few simple demonstrations of Newton’s laws of motion in the Puzzle Maker. Hey Nathan!...
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girls and portal 2
I love hearing from innovative teachers who are exploring new ways of taking advantage of video games in their classrooms. I’ve recently been speaking with Megan Pusey, a science teacher with a...
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Portal in Elementary School
You may have noticed a shout-out in my most recent video to Nathan Manderfield, an elementary school teacher in California, who teaches with some of the coolest projects I’ve ever seen. Nathan’s been...
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NASA, Portal and Physics. Oh my god.
This might be one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen. This is what happens when you mix NASA, Portal and physics, which are basically my top three favorite things. Just watch:
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Portal in High School
Jimmy Newland, a high school teacher in Houston, seriously takes the cake. He took with my physics lessons and recreated them better than I could have imagined in his physics classroom. You have to...
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Portal in Santa Clara, California
Over the past two years of Physics with Portals, I’ve gotten emails from dozens innovative teachers around the world who want to teach with Portal 2. And it’s awesome. I love helping out however I can....
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lifelong learning -or- how i learned how to code
Here’s how I learned to leverage projects and goals to become a programmer: I dabbled in code when I was in college working on my minor in astronomy. For my stellar astrophysics course, we had to...
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making a front-end newsletter
I’ve been working at Udacity for a while now, where I’ve been teaching front-end web development. While I spend most of my time making classes, we recently started working on a newsletter too. Below,...
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