Is it crazy to ask teachers to take time out of their hard-earned weekends to learn to code? Probably, but when we do they’re saying ‘yes.’ On August 9th, Trinket is helping to organize an event to get Middle and High School teachers prepared to teach an Hour of Code this fall. We weren’t sure […]
Over the past few weeks we have heard from you just how effective interactive trinkets can be for teaching programming to their students. Even though it takes a few steps to create and embed trinkets we have seen thousands created and hundreds installed in websites around the world. You’ve helped us realize that interactive examples […]
This is part of a series of occasional interviews I’m doing of educational innovators, both inside and outside the teaching profession. You can find the past interviews here. We met Elizabeth Wickes at Pycon 2014 and I’m delighted that she agreed to do an interview for us. She’s smart, personable, and passionate about forming community […]
You may have heard that Trinket has committed over two thousand dollars in matching contributions to Professor Kris Shaffer’s IndieGoGo project to write an interactive, open source Music textbook. As Trinket’s CEO, my job is to build a company that customers love enough to pay money to. As an educator and erstwhile academic, I wholeheartedly support […]