It took us awhile to get out our fourth episode, but we are happy to share with you "Object Oriented" #4: the Museums and the Web edition! Barry, Eve and I happened to be in the same place at the same time for the Museums and the Web conference in LA a few weeks ago. …
My co-workers surprised me with this on my desk this morning. Awww. It's nice working with a program with such nice swag.
Today my colleague Andrew dug up this old Science Action Club tee-shirt for me, back from 2012. Any ideas why we don't use this graphic anymore?
I’m excited to announce that I will soon be taking on a newly created role at the Academy, the Senior Instructional Design Lead for Science Action Club. This is a new position working with our largest youth program, the Science Action Club (SAC), a high-impact STEM learning program that designs professional development and teaching kits for middle school afterschool …
Just a teaser that on Monday I have some exciting news about my new role at the California Academy of Sciences. Meanwhile, here's a video of one of our biologists introducing our Digital Learning TechTeens to a Giant Pacific Octopus under our care.
I have been helping lead one of our teen project groups for the internship program at the Academy. Project groups are opportunities for our interns to work together on some longer term project or topic, supported by a staff person, over the course of a semester. My project group is called “Big History”, a group of five teens …
I am thrilled to announce bioGraphic, a new multimedia magazine, powered by my museum the California Academy of Sciences, that features immersive stories from around the globe about all things that awe in nature, biological science, and the ingenuity of humankind. Check out the newly launched site. The stories you’ll find on bioGraphic are meant to entertain, …
This past weekend at the California Academy of Sciences, nine teams of teens from across the Bay Area (including SF, Oakland, North Bay, and the peninsula) gathered to rapidly develop digital climate games on the topics of Bay Area food, water and energy for the 2nd annual Science Game Jam. The game jammers were ably …
Check out this Storify of a Tweetchat I participated in last Friday on the subject of Afterschool environmental education. It was a lot of fun to do and I learned a lot from the many awesome groups on the chat! [View the story "Celebrating #AfterschoolEE" on Storify]
I just read a chapter from the book Behavior Change Theories and Free-Choice Environmental Learning (2009) that examines behavior change theories as they apply to environmental learning and action. The author Nicole Ardoin of Stanford University reviews several relevant behavior change theories that are particularly relevant to institutions that offer "free-choice" environmental learning. That is, places …