Since figuring out what Google App Engine actually is, I have been thinking more about what might be done with it. In my earlier post, I missed a huge key opportunity for education: building software that supports writing. [Update: Doesn't Google Docs already do this? Well, when adults sit down to write, [...]
Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
25 Apr
Making a Zine
I just had a very encouraging meeting with a couple of colleagues (at a lovely off-campus venue) about a project we’re going to do with my freshman classes. The basic idea is that students will create a zine about how they relate to their neighborhoods, with a focus on understanding and preventing violence. [...]
17 Mar
Parity
This is a particularly interesting day for me — I’m doing the same assignments as my students. My senior class is doing a Maya tutorial called UV 101 to learn how to unwrap and texture a model. I’m right there with them, having just figured out how to get an image to texture [...]
3 Mar
No Free Lunch
In my freshman class today, I had students read Free Lunch Isn’t Cool, So Some Students Go Hungry. I was mostly interested to see if they thought there was a technological solution to a social problem. But I did ask for them to write about their perceptions of this problem as well, and [...]
19 Feb
Wikipedia
I was out sick today, but wanted to get a new unit started with my 9th grade classes. I had them do a little opening exercise, writing what they know about Wikipedia, what they’ve heard about it, and what they’d like to know about it. Simple, but not bad for a 37-minute class [...]
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