I love being a professional educator

My sister makes a lot more money than I do, but I think I have more fun at work (she might disagree). Becoming a professional educator was the best choice I ever made. Hard days? Of course. Systemic underfunding and bureaucratic silliness? Certainly. But I get insane curiosity and open minds who want to learn and poke at new ideas. Oh, and of course I am the faculty advisor to the karaoke club. How cool is that?

Here are some articles I've written about teaching.

Exciting changes in IB computer science
Sabbatical update 2
Sabbatical update 1
The future of high school computing
Project management tools
Sabbatical planning
Entity-Component-System 〈ECS〉
Need a procedurally generated country?
Current thinking about chatGPT
Writing a report card comment generator
Building an LMS (or virtual learning experience) - part 3 of 3
Building an LMS (or virtual learning experience) - part 2 of 3
Building an LMS (or virtual learning experience) - part 1 of 3
Displaying courses in grid format on moodle homepage
Procedural fantasy weapon generator
chatGPT part 3: how do I know you know?
chatGPT part 2: how we change our teaching and student learning
chatGPT: teaching computing
Robotics
Procedural generation as a teaching approach
The design cycle works
How do we measure students computational thinking?
Building a computer science wiki
Linux server with lots of students - assigning individual read / write for students in /var/www
Six rules for asking questions in computer science

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I am an engaging and entertaining speaker. I bring insightful, common-sense, down-to-earth observations about technology and education. I tie current educational theory and research to "boots on the ground" experience to create helpful and practical presentations. For a list of my previous speaking engagements, press interviews, and awards, please look at the front page of my site. If you'd like to contact me, contact me

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