Using technology in Education.
I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the educational companies who have taken steps to make free content available to all the students who are at home sheltering in place. I’m so happy that my company was able to make resources available, but I’m also very pleased that so many others were […]
I was inspired by a free handout at my local public library, it was a “1000 books before kindergarten” workbook. The idea is that you track each book that you read with your children and try to read 1000 books before they begin kindergarten.To begin with, this seems like a lofty goal! 1000 books are […]
Learn how to design your app with age appropriate design while keeping user privacy in mind.
Overview Building content that will be utilized by a Learning Management System (LMS) requires a development environment that has a running LMS. Preferably if you are going to build content using an open source mechanism, you should have as many LMSs as you can, in order to ensure that your content can play on all of […]
This post is about the design of the Alphabet Tiles game, not the graphics for the game, but the description of it. This is what Game Designers do, they create the definition of the game. A good step in game design is to start with a GDD or Game Design Document. The game design document […]
Building an educational game is more difficult than building a game without a purpose. Because you are attempting to do two things at once, both become more difficult. You might want to start by making a normal game or two, maybe choosing one that has educational benefits but is not designed to teach the user […]
I am always interested in finding ways to teach programming to students and I recently came across a book that teaches C++ through game development. I decided to post my own notes as I read along. The book was written using Windows, and I will be using a Mac, so I will comment any changes […]
Project Status Review The last two weeks have been split between the website, and the Chrome extension. For the website, a new Course List has been added, as well as some bugs, and the big change is the API. Now that the site has a public API, the Chrome extension can talk to it. This […]
The idea for MOOCMinder came from my research of MOOC’s in my Ed Tech class at GATech. The main feature of the site is to help students stay on track and complete their MOOC course. But along the way it transitioned in to something that would help students to better know their own understanding of […]
Objective and Background MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are generally considered to be open courses that are offered by prestigious universities that anyone can sign up for.[1] I am interested in both creating and testing the value of adding aspects of personalized learning and motivational enhancement (i.e., gamification) to standard MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), to see if the additional functionality […]