I’m thrilled to announce that starting in mid-January, I begin a new position at the public media outlet KQED as an online learning manager. KQED serves the people of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. They provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the …
Thoughout most of my career, I’ve had the enormous benefit of having my jobs custom-made for me, based on my skills, interests and background. That was true at the Cal Academy, Global Kids, TechSoup, even at my first real job at the World Federalist Movement so many years ago. I’m so fortunate to have had …
A friend asked me to suggest some local places to bring a group of young people who were interesting in engineering and science. The San Francisco Bay Area is a treasure trove of amazing places to visit for young scientists and engineers. Here’s some of my favorite spots: The California Academy of Sciences is the world’s …
So I am finally getting this website back up, after migrating over from my old provider a couple of weeks ago. It’s been a lot harder to figure out how to work with WordPress than I anticipated, but in general I’m pretty happy with how the new site looks and operates.
I just finished Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. A present from a good friend (Thanks, Barry!), it comes at a perfect time in my life, as I contemplate a career shift. Designing Your Life is a guide to applying a design-thinking process to career planning. As someone who has done and taught design for …
I'm excited to share the news of the launch of PlanetVision, a multi-pronged campaign to provide practical, science-based actions that individuals, communities, businesses and governments can take to heal our ailing planet. If you are wondering what are the most effective actions you can take that will make a difference in the health of the Earth …
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The New Learning Times, a publication of the Teachers College at Columbia University, did a nice profile about me recently. I’ve reprinted some it below. See the complete piece by George Nantwi at their site. How did your educational trajectory and past professional experience shape your current work? I have a wide-ranging and circuitous educational …
Barry Joseph turned me on to “Hyperlapse“, a free app from the makers of Instagram that enables you to easily create a timelapse video from your smartphone. Here’s a quick test of the app I made while walking around the main floor of the Cal Academy today. Really easy to use, and lots of potential for doing …
Last Saturday, we held a successful and fun first day of the Science Game Design Workshop at the the Cal Academy. Led by Chris Bennett and his colleague Karen Guttieri from the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford University, this is the first of what we hope will be a regular series of design and technology workshops for teens at …