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Eleven Bay Area Museums March in the Pride Parade!
Yesterday was my first time marching in the San Francisco Pride Parade. I have participated for many years in the New York Pride Parade, but San Francisco has a well-deserved reputation as an...
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"Finding Dory" and Four Real World Marine Animal Institutes You Should Support
"Finding Dory" takes place largely in the fictional "Marine Life Institute" whose mission is the "rescue, rehabilitation and release" of marine life. The institution is depicted in the film not only...
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Listen to the Latest (and Last!) "Object Oriented" Podcast
Give a listen to the latest episode of "Object Oriented," the podcast on digital learning in collections-based museums, hosted by Eve Gaus of the Field Museum, Barry Joseph of the American Museum of...
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Nature Walking in Sweden
For the past week and a half, I have been in lovely Herrang, Sweden for a dance camp. It's a really fun event in a beautiful locale, with a small lake, a tiny beach, and verdant countryside all around...
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Teen Science Night 2016: 1,600 Teens Takeover the California Academy of...
This past Friday was the fourth annual Teen Science Night at the California Academy of Sciences, the nation's largest teen-organized science night at a museum. Over 1,600 teens from across the San...
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Meteor Peeping the Perseids
Photo Credit: Wilson Lam CC-licensedLast Thursday, some work friends and I got together to check out the Perseid meteor shower that was supposed to be spectacular that night. Five of us from the...
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New Science Videos on Energy Starring Local Bay Area Teens!
The California Academy of Sciences released a whole new set of Flipside Science videos, short explorations of different environmental topics. This series deals with the important topic of ENERGY, and...
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Virtual Reality Tours of National Parks for 100th Anniversary of Parks System
Google has released stunning virtual reality tours of five national parks, as part of the celebration of the 100th annniversary of the National Park System. From the Kenai Fjords of Alaska to the Dry...
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Cornucopia: Free Online Game for Teaching about Sustainability and Farming
I'm very excited to share the news that the California Academy of Sciences has added a new online game to our Flipside Science modules called "Cornucopia." This fast-paced, fun strategy game puts you...
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My Mini Strandbeest!
This weekend, I caught one of the last showings of the Strandbeest at the Exploratorium, along with some work colleagues. A series of "kinetic sculptures" created by Theo Jansen since the 1990s, the...
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MicroRangers: Augmented Reality Gaming in a Science Museum
Why are these bison so gassy? What's hurting the chestnut trees? What's turning the coral white? In MicroRangers, a new augmented reality game at the American Museum of Natural History, you get to...
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Touring the Bay with the Cal Academy Public Programs and Youth Programs Teams!
On Friday, the youth programs team was invited to participate in a fun outing with the public programs team from the Cal Academy. About 20 of us from both sections met up in Tiburon, California for a...
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87 Tips for Running a Serious Game Jam
On Wednesday, I am giving a talk "87 Tips on Running A Successful Serious Game Jam," for the Digital Media and Learning conference in Irvine, California. I was being a bit facetious in my title. But...
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Four "Generations" of Digital Learning Leaders from Global Kids!
I can't love enough this picture of several of the Global Kids program directors and staff from the Online Leadership Program all together for the first time. This is from the Digital Media and...
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DML 2016: New Directions and a New Home
The 2015 Digital Media and Learning Conference I feared was going to be the last. With the announcement by the MacArthur Foundation in August 2015 that they were ending funding of the field of digital...
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Text Claude the Albino Alligator to All of Your Friends!
If you love Claude the albino alligator, the mascot of the California Academy of Sciences, and you own an Apple iPhone or iPad, you need these new iMessage add-on "Swamp Life." You get a set of twenty...
View ArticlePromo for the Academy's Virtual Learning Program for Classrooms
The California Academy of Science's is a world-class science research and educational facility, that hundreds of thousands of young people every year get to experience and learn from. However there are...
View ArticleScientific American Grades the Presidential Candidates on Science
This has not been the most science-rich election, among many of the other things that were lacking this political season. Science Debate has been working hard to make sure try and get science and...
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CEO of the California Academy of Sciences on Moving Forward during the Trump...
2013 photo of the staff at the California Academy of SciencesJon Foley, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, sent this to all of us on the staff yesterday. I couldn't be more proud...
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Academy Interns Collect Marine Life in Pillar Point
This Saturday, I had the pleasure of driving a group of the California Academy of Science's teen interns to beautiful Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay to go on a marine life collection expedition. The...
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