A phrase I hear increasingly often is ‘I’m not a Teacher but I Teach’. Brian Painter is representative of a group of Trinket users who don’t make their living teaching. He teaches a programming class for kids several times a year that he runs in addition to his day job. We think the way he’s […]
With the release of our embeddable Python Trinkets that Brian announced a few days ago, I got thinking: where else does this let us teach programming concepts? Google Apps is huge in the education market (and we use it here at Trinket), so I wondered how Trinket worked with Google Sites. Turns out they work […]
An Interview with Greg Garner This is the first in a series of occasional interviews of innovators in teaching & technology. I met Greg Garner, an education technologist for Eanes Independent School District in central Texas at SXSWedu in Austin earlier this year. I’ve since come to know him as a dedicated, hand-on education technologist and a forward-thinking observer […]
If my last post convinced you that Python is the best first language, you’re probably looking for some great interactive teaching tools. Well, here are my three favorite interactive tools for teaching Python to students of all levels: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced. And….the winners are: Beginner: Turtle (using Skulpt) Intermediate: IPython Notebooks Advanced: Nitrous.io cloud […]
I recently finished a series of three posts (here, here, and here) on how my background in Art History has influenced my teaching. Now I’m moving on to why I think Python is an excellent first choice of language for teens and adults. What are characteristics of a great first programming language? Another way […]