A couple of week ago I posted a video I created about my average daily commute….only sped up to about 1200 mph. The result was quite interesting, and an excellent study of how to create a certain “mood” or convey a particular type of experience to the viewer. I was able to turn my daily 40 mile commute into a video game (at least I felt as though I did), with the right music and some serious acceleration of the...

If anyone was a fan of “Out of Control”, the wacky Dave Coulier hosted show on Nickelodeon, they’ll probably remember a segment known as “Hurry Up!”. During the segment, Dave would take a video clip submitted by a viewer, and “hurry up” a portion of their day that was considered boring, dreary, and otherwise a chore. For example, hurrying up a school day or math test, but managing to slow time back...

I’m a teacher, an educator, an educational technology coordinator, an instructional technologist……I work for a school. That’s usually how I introduce what it is I do to people these days, as my true job is actually quite difficult to explain. Not just from the standpoint of everything I’m involved with, but more importantly, there’s a large portion of the non-educational world that simply doesn’t...

I’ve been nurturing a new found love for short video projects, especially the idea of talking story problems and giving them a visual element. The story problem is probably one of the most classic examples of a very valid attempt at putting math into real world context (depending on the execution). I’ve always advocated to teachers that anything you can do to personalize your teaching, or make connections between the material...