Focus: Academic

Creating Online Portfolios for Boston Public Schools

Creating Online Portfolios for Boston Public Schools

In 2009 I worked with other members of the EdTech Center, and Northeastern’s Department of Art+Design to teach a week long course, to BPS faculty, that focused on using free web 2.0 tools to create a digital portfolio.

The idea …

 

Flash Based Learning Unit

Flash Based Learning Unit

This particular teaching aid has been updated many times over the years, but linked to an exceptionally higher number of courses, workshops, demos, and talks I’ve given over the years. it keeps serving its purpose so well, I have to …

 

Northeastern’s Second Life Island

Northeastern’s Second Life Island

I hired and trained a coop student to work with me to create phase one of Northeastern’s Second Life presence.

Working with actual textures from the quad, we created one of the most recognizable spaces on Northeastern’s main Boston Campus.…

 

Space Planning with 3D Immersive Worlds

Space Planning with 3D Immersive Worlds

In 2007/2008 we moved into a new space for the EdTech Center. To help get a sense for the space I model it in a few different ways.

First I used a simple 3d modeling application – google sketchup – …

 

Flased Based Online Portfolio Builder

Flased Based Online Portfolio Builder

I created a flash based portfolio tool that could would allow students to (relatively quickly and easily) create a flash based portfolio. The idea was that students could “toggle” the tool into a development mode, and then, once the flipped …

 

Get Rich Slow

Get Rich Slow

EdTech collaborated with a Retirement Center at Boston College to create a flash based educational game. The goal of the game was to produce questions for a presenter to then be able to talk about during a face to face …