What a year this has been! While I have taken much away from my experience as a Kenan Fellow, the culmination of the program is the completion of our projects as a product to be used by other teachers around the state. As a game design teacher, I struggled with this portion for a number of weeks last summer before it… Read more »
This week’s post is all about connecting how my internship relates to to my classroom. For me, there are a couple of connections used in the lessons I designed for the ASSIST Center and ultimately for my Kenan Project. One of the curriculum I teach is Scientific Visualization, which contains a unit on data visualization. My internship at the ASSIST Center involved working with… Read more »
After having a great time while attending the Kenan professional advancement workshop at NCCAT last week, I was ready to return to my internship at the ASSIST Center and find out more of what is expected of us as well as learn more about sensor devices. And, although it was a short week due to the holiday weekend, what a… Read more »
I have a number of goals in mind for how I plan to use the knowledge and experience I gain as a Kenan Fellow doing an internship at the NC State ASSIST Center to improve my curriculum. As I have on the About My Fellowship page, one of my goals relates to learning about the different kinds of visualization techniques that… Read more »
What a great start to my Kenan experience! I am enjoying taking in all the information our group is receiving from Jess Jur and his fellow staff members at NC State’s Assist center as well as interacting and sharing with the other educators who are involved in the wearable devices group! I have already learned a lot about sensor devices, gotten… Read more »
Well, yesterday we were introduced to a couple of new sensing devices: the Texas Instruments (TI) CC2650 Sensor Pad and the Arduino Lilypad. I already have some great ideas on how to use the TI sensor in my classroom, though it will take a little more exploring to make it work. The Arduino, on the other hand, was more problematic…. Read more »
