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How a Nature App is Creating Communities of Citizen Scientists
Check out this neat article by Jessica Decker on iNaturalist, a mobile app that is empowering regular folks to make nature observations that help science. To date more than 1 million observations have...
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2015 Highlights of Digital Learning at the Cal Academy
The year two-thousand and fifteen was a HUGE one for the Digital Learning program at the California Academy of Sciences. We've had a lot of changes, pivots, sad goodbyes, and successes over the past...
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Free Music, Photos and Videos for Educational Projects (Creative Commons,...
Everyone likes free stuff, right? Educators in particular are constantly in need of free resources to use with their students.It's not hard to find or obtain free content online. That's just the nature...
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Tweetchat on Awesome Afterschool Environmental Education
Check out this Storify of a Tweetchat I participated in last Friday on the subject of Afterschool environmental education. It was a lot of fun to do and I learned a lot from the many awesome groups on...
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Teens Create Nine Digital Eco-games at the 2016 Science Game Jam at the Academy!
This past weekend at the California Academy of Sciences, nine teams of teens from across the Bay Area (including SF, Oakland, North Bay, and the peninsula) gathered to rapidly develop digital climate...
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bioGraphic online magazine inspires, awes and informs about our awesome planet!
I am thrilled to announce bioGraphic, a new multimedia magazine, powered by my museum the California Academy of Sciences, that features immersive stories from around the globe about all things that awe...
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When I gave our teens 45 minutes to save humanity
I have been helping lead one of our teen project groups for the internship program at the Academy. Project groups are opportunities for our interns to work together on some longer term project or...
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Exciting News on Monday! (plus a giant octopus)
Just a teaser that on Monday I have some exciting news about my new role at the California Academy of Sciences.Meanwhile, here's a video of one of our biologists introducing our Digital Learning...
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Announcing my new role at the Academy: Senior Instruction Design Lead at...
I'm excited to let you know that I will soon be taking on a newly created role at the Academy, the Senior Instructional Design Lead for the Science Action Club. This is a new position working with our...
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Rocking an Old School Science Action Club Tee
Today my colleague Andrew dug up this old Science Action Club tee-shirt for me, back from 2012. Any ideas why we don't use this graphic anymore?
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Science Action Club Swag!
My co-workers surprised me with this on my desk this morning. Awww.It's nice working with a program with such nice swag.
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Listen to Object Oriented Ep 4 : Museums and the Web XX, Cory Doctorow, The...
It took us awhile to get out our fourth episode, but we are happy to share with you "Object Oriented" #4: the Museums and the Web edition!Barry, Eve and I happened to be in the same place at the same...
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Bay Area Teens Unveil Nine Eco-games at the Academy's Science Game Jam 2016!
What would happen if you let 40 teens spend the weekend at your museum and challenged them to create digital games on complex sustainability topics? That's what we wanted to find out, so we organized...
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The TechTeens Ask "Are Robots Taking Our Jobs?"
I'm so proud of my TechTeens at the California Academy of Sciences for completing their last "Do Now" science blog post of the year on a really cool and fun topic: "Are robots taking our jobs?" Check...
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Academy TechTeens playing "Spaceteam"!
For the final day of the TechTeens program last Saturday, I had my group of teens play the game "Spaceteam" together for the first time. It's one of my favorite games ever, and seeing them so delighted...
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"Cosmic Eye": "Powers of Ten" for the Mobile Device Era
I'm old enough to remember "Powers of Ten" (1977), a formative and mind-expanding film that was shown to millions of young people in the 70s and 80s. It depicts in stunning animations for time the...
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Magical Trip to Farallon Islands to Search for Whales, Dolphins, Sea Birds...
On Saturday, I had the pleasure of going on one of the first boat trips to the Farallon Islands with the Oceanic Society this season. It was an incredible, all-day voyage, just 27-miles from San...
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Simone Giertz, the Queen of Shitty Robots (and a Lindy Hopper!)
A couple of years ago, I met Simone Giertz, a young Swedish woman interested in lindy hop and making electronic gadgets. That's three things that I love in one person:dancing lindy hop!making...
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Journey to "The Twilight Zone" of Coral Reefs at the California Academy of...
Scientists know more about the surface of the moon than they do about the deep coral reefs.On Friday June 20, the California Academy of Sciences unveils our newest exhibit "Twilight Zone: Deep Reefs...
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The Fascinating Life of the Lancet Liver Fluke
My new colleague at the California Academy of Sciences , Po Bhattacharyya made this wonderful animated video about the lancet liver fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum) while an undergrad at Brown. I...
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