As part of my duties as head of Digital Learning at the Cal Academy, I have been leading up a series of internal meetings on digital badges for learning. It's been a really great experience and I've definitely learned a lot. Many of my colleagues have been really curious and excited about the potential for …
Yesterday my Youth Programs team from the Cal Academy took a well-deserved mini-retreat up to Tomales, Bay, about an hour and a half north of San Francisco. Yes, it was cold and rainy almost the entire time. My feet got wet almost immediately during our hike, which I HATE. And yet I had an …
This past weekend, one of my teammates and I led a youth workshop called "Programmable Puppets" for 15 Bay Area teens at the California Academy of Sciences. The purpose of this workshop was to expose teens to a couple of fun digital technologies and have them explore their interests in animal behavior through the process …
I love all of my awesome colleagues in the Teacher and Youth Education department of the California Academy of Sciences. Such a smart, dedicated and fun bunch of people. Here we are being silly for our special holiday departmental meeting. And the less exciting "regular" picture.
Working at a science museum, I'm in a space that is constantly changing. Exhibits are being phased out and in, new planetarium shows are being launched, living and dead specimens are being integrated into our collections and exhibits. It's part of what makes it exciting to work here. Yesterday was the last day of our …