Sustainably Digital

Podcasts are amazing. I listen to them when I do the dishes, when I’m driving by myself in the car, when I’m going for a run, and pretty much any time when I’m doing mindless work. I’ve come to rely on podcasts quite a bit for my entertainment/learning/information. I’ve found that since I’ve started using [...]

I’ve heard of people using the revision histories of Wikipedia articles to study how thoughts and ideas about a topic have changed over time. However, for practical use in a high school science class featuring underclassmen, this has always seemed like it would be pretty labor intensive and wouldn’t have the best time to learning [...]

Part 2 of the Chemical Reaction Artifact series. Part 1 describes what an artifact of learning is and why I use them. I’m not someone who really enjoys being the center of attention. I don’t enjoy talking for longer than 5-10 minutes a time during class and yet I found myself being the center of [...]

My last school required that all teachers have web pages in order to (at minimum) communicate the daily schedule to students and parents. I used it for my schedule, but also as a jump-off for online assignments. My new school does not require all teachers to have web pages. Yet I enjoyed the benefits of [...]

It’s really not that scary, especially at the level high school freshmen need to know it. The periodic table, however, is something almost inherently deemed as incomprehensible by incoming students. To them it’s something to be feared not something to be understood. After some ineffective periodic table teaching for a few years I realized I [...]

Despite the problems I’ve been having lately with my new position, I feel (mostly) ready to go for day one. As part of my continuing crusade against my previously poorly designed presentations and handouts, I decided to peruse what my blogosphere (the one in my aggregator) had to say about the matter. I found plenty [...]

In addition to my interesting finds series, I’m starting this series which will include a video of something I found compelling, awesome, or interesting each week. They may be videos that are educationally useful or they may just be too awesome to not share with the world. This first video’s narration is in Japanese, and [...]

I’m going to attempt to post interesting bits I’ve found recently, both as a way to share with the community things I’ve found, and as a way to reflect upon items I’ve found. I won’t go as far to guarantee I’ll do this weekly (I’d like to), but whenever I get together 5-10 interesting items, [...]

I really enjoy teaching, but there are a few people that’d be able to convince me to take a hiatus from my current career track if they offered me a position. Here are three of them: Richard Preston Richard Preston is perhaps best known for writing articles on scientists and science in New Yorker magazine. [...]

I subscribe to NOTCOT.org’s RSS feed because they have lots of little bits about interesting and fun graphic design stuff, which I enjoy. Their feeds are quick to go through and sometimes I find some interesting stuff. Today as I was quickly going through my NOTCOT feeds, I saw this headline: “Visible Body ~ Travel [...]