We’re sad to share that our lead designer Julia Elman is moving on from Trinket. She’s been a huge part of building our new brand and our new app, and I want to celebrate her achievements here and wish her well at her next adventure. The silver lining is that she’ll now be teaching full […]
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 […]
We are excited to announce the release of a new tool that lets anyone embed Interactive Python on their own blog or web site. This technology has been available in Trinket from the beginning and starting today you can use it for free and without signing in. We’ve seen over and over how the interactivity […]
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 […]