Saturday, August 25, 2012

Bookmarks autopost (weekly)

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Bookmarks autopost (weekly)

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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Bookmarks autopost (weekly)

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Monday, August 6, 2012

Educational Robotics Presentation Materials from Techapalooza


This is all of the information I used for my presentation/activity at Techapalooza 2012.  If you are interested in learning more about this please email me or the CREATE Lab.


About Arts and BotsThe Arts and Bots Project is where students combine craft materials, robotic components, and a custom visual-programming tool to build and animate their own robotic creations. Our initial target audience was middle school girls, but the project now engages both genders from elementary school through high school. Arts and Bots is a flexible program that can be adapted to many contexts and subjects in and out of school..

(Above statement borrowed from the Arts and Bots blog)  




Please share any ideas you have about implementing this equipment.  Ex: how it could be used in foreign language classes, etc.
Launch Programming Software

Please note: the software will only work correctly with a Hummingbird microcontroller attached and turned on. 


Curriculum is available on the Arts and Bots Blog. You can also contact Rob Ruddle for more information at ruddler@calsd.org. If emailing, please put "Techapalooza Arts and Bots" in the subject line.
Arts and Bots / Robot Diaries Blog    PRICING as of 8/6/12  

    Contact Info/links:
To Purchase: http://www.hummingbirdkit.com/
Developers: http://www.cmucreatelab.org/
Project Blog: http://robotdiaries.posterous.com/
Today's Presenter: Rob Ruddle - ruddler@calsd.org - mrruddle.com 

Monday, October 24, 2011

A Case for K-12 Engineering

I received a link to this video via email.  Help spread it around.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Increased Reading Speed?

I found ZAP Reader while looking at http://www.rsinnovative.com/.  I use their Ruler Game with my Eighth Grade Class. 
I am going to try it out on myself and see if I notice any results.  I just figured I would share.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Copyright Resources and Somes Examples of Consequences

At Techapalooza 2011  Joyce Mason presented a session called Copyright not Copywrong.  In this post, I am going to share some of the information and resources she shared with the group here. 

Since copyright law is very confusing, it seems to be one of the hardest things to teach students and adults.  Here is a video from the Copyright Clearance Center that I think does an excellent job of explaining copyright.
http://learn.copyright.com/copyrightoncampus/

Look at this data (embedded below) from http://www.carolsimpson.com/copyright/copyright_action_data_results.htm and notice who reported some of the cases. Think twice before you use something in your classroom.



Here are some other copyright resources I just learned about today.

http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
http://techapalooza2011.iu1.wikispaces.net/file/view/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf