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Category Archives: Education
Make a Basic HTML Page with Headers & Paragraphs
Get started making websites now. This is a beginner-level video on how to get started making web pages. It begins with a template you can download and begin using now, and ends with a very simple biography page
Happy CSEdWeek
I decided to turn my attention towards the usefulness of computational thinking around the home with my sock-sorting algorithm. Yes, you heard me right. Now, you can apply computational thinking to doing your laundry. But first, you might be wondering what I mean by computational thinking.
OSU SuperQuest WordPress Showcase
I wanted to show off the brilliant work of my WordPress workshop participants from the Web Design: from Soup to Nuts course at OSU a few weeks back. Students (mostly teachers) learned about the core web technologies used in WordPress (X/HMTL, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL), manually installed WordPress on a server, developed a blog or website…
Web Design from Soup to Nuts PowerPoints
This post is intended for all OSU SuperQuest workshop participants, but I share the resources freely for all the world to see. I hope the notes make sense out of context.
Hello, Corvallis!
I want to give a shout out to all my workshop participants hanging out in Corvallis with me this week. Yo! In case you’re wondering, I’m back at OSU for the SuperQuest Summer Institute to present a workshop titled, Web Design From Soup to Nuts: Develop Your Own Word Press Site. The workshop starts on [...]
Computer Science: STEM’s Bastard Child
“The basic issue is that the nation is understanding rightfully the importance of STEM education, and computer science is being largely left out of the conversation,” he told me, “although if you were to look where the job demand is going to be and what drives the economy, … computer science is huge.”
Is Failure the Crazy Uncle?
Failure is just an intrinsic part of the innovation process.
CS Unplugged in Eugene
Hello all teachers, administrators et. al. who have attended my CS Unplugged workshop in Eugene. I’m presenting a taste of CS Unplugged at the OACTE Spring Conference in Eugene, OR. I only have 1 hour and 15 minutes to attempt to cover 3 topics.
Introduction to Game Design in Scratch
There are many game-design related topics—too many to cover in a post or 1-hour workshop. I will nonetheless cover a handful of core topics: