the red pincushion

May 7, 2012

Arduino? Oh yes!

This week, I spent a bit of time talking about Arduino. I talked with a dance professor about…

May 4, 2012

5 easy things you can do to your course this summer [from the archives]

The summer is a great time for redesigning or redeveloping a course. The process of redesigning, when it…

April 25, 2012

Jazzed up!

I will rarely post to this blog about Jazzercise. However, as part of the “happy life” portion of…

April 17, 2012

Learning on the beach

This weekend, I had the opportunity to join a group of Stanford students on a field trip to…

April 16, 2012

Pursuing a happiness goal

When I started working at Stanford, I was immediately drawn to an initiative called Be Well. Be Well is…

April 13, 2012

The power of making

In third grade, growing up in Brazil and homeschooled through a correspondence school called Calvert, I found that my…

March 30, 2012

Some thoughts on ed tech mixers and meetups

What do you call 120 ed tech innovation afficionados noisily crammed into a room at SF’s posh ROE…

March 27, 2012

MERLOT should look like Pinterest

I am a moderate user of Pinterest. By that I mean that I occasionally sit down with my…

March 17, 2012

Failure is always an option

Last month, at John Seeley Brown’s evocative DML2012 keynote, I was reminded of the notion of failure in…

March 13, 2012

“Is this thing on?” What to do with student presentations [from the archives, renamed]

Admit it, student presentations can be a real disaster. I have used student presentations several times in my…

March 11, 2012

A Twitter bot for POD 2012 (and other conferences)

This week, I read 4 musings about Twitter use at conferences. I’ll describe each of the readings and…

March 4, 2012

“Learn this” and “Pin This”: The Pinterest Model for a Connected Learning Platform

On the train, returning from the DML 2012 conference in San Francisco, I am sorting through the interactions…

February 24, 2012

Return to Evernote?

Several years ago, I began using a relatively new (at the time) service called Evernote. I was a…

February 6, 2012

The scientific method, 5 ways [from the archives]

This blog post was originally published in 2011. Over the weekend, I watched They Might Be Giants’ Here Comes…

February 2, 2012January 7, 2015

Some thoughts on teaching with Pinterest [from the archives]

This post was originally published in 2011. Recently, a friend introduced me to Pinterest, an online pinboard tool…

February 1, 2012

Let go (of coverage) [from the archives]

This post was originally published in 2011. I heard it over and over at the CIC Information Fluency…

January 31, 2012

Vulnerability in the classroom [from the archives]

This blog post was originally published in 2011. “vulnerability is not only a condition to be endured, but…

January 18, 2012

Teaching an online course? 5 things to do at the start of the semester [from the archives]

This blog post was originally published August 22, 2011. I had intended to make another Made from Scratch…