Parting Ways with the Philadelphia BDPA

Yeah, I'm sorry to say it, but it must happen.  Unfortunately, I will not be participating in the 2011-2012 BDPA HSCC program.

What Gives?

In short:  I don't think the program is improving.  It improved wonderfully for my first year or two, and then went stagnant.  To be a little …


Moodle 2.0 Upgrade

I've mentioned before that I teach a class of high schoolers how to program in Java.  In order to make things manageable and to make the most of my time with the kids, I use Moodleto organize, store, distribute all of my course content.  I've fallen in love with …


HSCC Competition

I've never written a post about it, but if you read the "About Me" section, you'll see that I teach a few different technologies to high school students (I know:  who'd trust me with kids?! :p).  I wanted to write about two things:  Our recent trip to our regional competition …