Google XPrize Lego Mindstorms contest!!

OOOOH! This looks super cool. Can't wait to tell the kids at False Bay!!

http://www.moonbots.org/

UVic Engineering paper mentions False Robotics!!

Check it out here:

http://www.uvic.ca/shared/shared_engineering/docs/EngineeRingSpring_2010_Final.pdf

Woo Hoo!!!

SIGCSE Poster presentation

So today I presented my poster at SIGCSE in Milwaukee, WI: An Interdisciplinary Guide to K-8 Computer Science Education. It was a huge success!! Yay!

Off the radar

So I have seemingly been slack in posting to this blog. True enough.

But that is one of the negative side-effects of living on a little remote island. Broken inverter = no power = no internet = unhappy student...

But now I'm on the road on my world tour, and am back in touch with "reality".

False Robotics Update

We finally got our medals for participating in the BC Regional Championships! The kids were stoked!

more visualization: green eggs and ham

Here is a Wordle I created from the text of Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham. The size of the word is relative to the frequency of the word in the text. Interesting way to see patterns....

google wave

Well, I've officially decided that I "don't get" the scroll bars in google wave. Thoroughly frustrating trying to navigate a wave. Arg!!!