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15 Jun 2016

The Final Episodes of Middle School Robotics

I realized I hadn't shared my final two episodes of Middle School Robotics here on the blog. I'm really happy with how the whole series came out. It was fun thinking through new ways to film or edit each new episode, as well as provide a glimpse of the progress students were making. I may or may not do another 'season' of it in the future. I kind of want to push myself to film more of my math classes, which will force me to make better math lessons; having a teacher walk through problems at the board makes for…

22 May 2016

Week 35 – My Teacher Self Evaluation & End of Year Review Idea

I thought for this week's reflection I would share my teacher self-evaluation that's due next week. Quick recap of how things were going in class though: END OF YEAR REVIEW IDEA To help my students study for the final, I didn't really want to create a review sheet so instead I gave them access to all of the quizzes, tests, and reassessments I've made this semester. I made a folder for each unit and put all the assessments (with answer keys) in those folders and then shared those folders with students and parents on our class website. Got some positive…

14 May 2016

Week 34 – Good Teaching Is Hard

So my last update talked about how I started teaching circles at the end of last week and into this week. Did a few things that worked and few things that really didn't. WHAT DIDN'T WORK This YouCubed activity was sort of a bust with all three classes. First class cut out their own circles and that took forever. The other two classes just cut out circles that I had already printed out for them. The general idea was that they cut them into fourths, arrange them into a rectangle, and find the area of the rectangle. They would then…

13 May 2016

Middle School Robotics – Episode 9 & 10

In these past two episodes, I improvise build a robot for the first time, most students start finishing up their cargo rescue mission project, students start exploring what they want to do for their final projects (they can do anything) and we also fly a drone for the first time. Enjoy :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3GwdvacAuc Music by Beck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ngp1O8OLUc Music by Arp

20 Apr 2016

Middle School Robotics Episode 8: Rovers Inspired By ‘The Martian’

This is episode 8 of a short series entitled 'Middle School Robotics.' This week, students create robots that will go on a rescue mission for some cargo (mildly inspired by The Martian). Also, I share some good news for the robotics class!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ErF489RfhQ My guest blog post: 5 Innovative Ways To Create Positive Classroom Culture Most of my project resources were taken from HERE Here is the rubric for the newest project that we talk about: Filmed at The Khabele School in Austin, TX: Music by Podington Bear

10 Apr 2016

Middle School Robotics Episode 7 : A Project We’ve Never Done Before

This was last week's video, forgot to bring it to the blog! Will have this weeks up in a few weeks. This week, we try out a new classroom arrangement, explore a project we've never done before, and figure out how to fix the problems we run into! You also get to see what I eat for breakfast. Here is the rubric for the newest project that we talk about: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVuinuCzk2k Filmed at The Khabele School in Austin, TX: http://www.khabele.org Music by: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcGX... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xm...

02 Mar 2016

Middle School Robotics – Episode 5 : Students Debate Over Ways To Program ‘Gold Digging’ Robot

This is episode 5 of a short series entitled 'Middle School Robotics.' This week, students finished up their second project and I introduced a project where they have to find 3 pieces of paper on a table using the color sensor, without falling off the table. It was originally called 'gold digger' and the paper was yellow but we didn't have the right shade of yellow and the color sensor wasn't reading it. So we're using red...but it's still called gold digger...red gold digger. Filmed at The Khabele School in Austin, TX Most of my project resources were taken from…

21 Feb 2016

Middle School Robotics – Episode 4: My Philosophy on Teaching Robotics

This is episode 4 of a short series entitled Middle School Robotics. Tried something different with this episode as I sort of gave an overview of the course and my philosophy behind it, as well as a look at what we're currently working on. Filmed at The Khabele School in Austin, TX. Most of my project resources were taken from here: http://ev3lessons.com/lessons.html Music by Ratatat - http://www.ratatatmusic.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItfImLcfOYQ

17 Feb 2016

Middle School Robotics – Episode 3

In this week's episode, students begin finishing up their project working with the robot motors, we realize that robots are actually pretty stupid, and students blog their experiences. https://youtu.be/gQiqJyMt-fE I've been experimenting with timelapses more. Trying to get a smooth, motion blur with them. Let me know what you think of them! Music by Podington Bear - http://soundofpicture.com

31 Jan 2016

Middle School Robotics Series – Episode 1

The beginning of a short series of what happening in my middle school robotics class at The Khabele School in Austin, TX :) In this episode, some students are finishing up their "Intro To Programming" projects and others are moving onto beginning to sort their Lego Mindstorm EV3 Robotics kit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAyyaqhkc4 Sorting guide can be found HERE I also filmed a day in Robotics class with the group I had last semester. You can see that video HERE.