Category Archives: General

I like to highlight some of the cool stopmotion animations my students create. But, as good as many of them are, there’s always an animation running through my head that I can’t quite seem to show them. It’s wild, cool … Continue reading →

We had to fix the sound on this a bit due to some problems that I caused the students (oops!), but it turned out fairly well inspite of that.

This one is shorter than the rest but is really kind of a neat demonstration of what you can do with no more than paper and a bit of cotton. The choice of materials was done entirely by the student … Continue reading →

The kids have been working on stop motion animation projects for the past few weeks. In between computer crashes, server problems, things not saving due to insufficient disk space and endless other technical problems, a couple of the videos have … Continue reading →

One of my favorite online tools, Google Docs, has added a new feature, apparently, as of this morning. In their word processor section they’ve added an option to “insert drawing.” This nifty little feature allows you to create and insert … Continue reading →

When teaching kids about what effect they can have on the larger world, there’s three websites that come to mind. Free Rice is a simple little vocab game that lets you pick the correct definition for a fairly obscure word. … Continue reading →

The good folk/s at Common Craft have been at it again. They’ve made the mysteries of a working computer seem simple. It’s hard for two people to talk about how to upgrade the school computers for your next project if … Continue reading →

I really hate marking. I procrastinate until it’s nearly too late and then get overwhelmed by it. It’s stupid of me, but it’s a pattern I can’t seem to snap out of. However, I saw a video this morning that … Continue reading →