Communicating in the Classroom – Lightboards / Learning Glass
Being able to interact with or connect to your audience while you write is likely a winning way to keep your audience focused on your content. One way to do this is to...
Projects from the DeArmond Makerspace, Price Science Commons, and Dean Walton
Being able to interact with or connect to your audience while you write is likely a winning way to keep your audience focused on your content. One way to do this is to...
Back on June 10th, 2019 I created a post on making gliders with a piece of paper, 3 Post-It notes, a few pennies, a shish kabob skewer and some 3D printed or laser...
One of the fun projects that I use to get people to try their hand at computer assisted designing (CAD) is to have them make something utilitarian, like a tool. One of the best...
This last month was a good month for my photography. I have a fairly extensive collection of images on the Flickr website under the moniker “Wolfram Burner,” and a large fraction of those are...
This winter I am teaching a class on visual communication and one of the projects for the class will likely be a quick exploration of generative art. This is art that is created using...
Well, we tried to see the transit of the Sun’s closest planet, but the weather challenged our desires today. My colleague, Mike Urbancic, set up a couple of telescopes to see what he...
Monday, November 11th, 2019, marks the next time the the planet Mercury can be seen crossing in front of the Sun from Earth. This event is known as a transit. In the case of...
My Colleague Theo Harrison and I are teaching a new course this winter. It’s called Visual Comunication & Technology. The class explores the pedagogical uses of high resolution video screens like the 50 million...
Saturday September 28th, Portland State University hosted the first local Pacific Northwest Aerospace expo/conference. It is planned to be an annual event and is particularly interesting to us here at the University of Oregon...
One of the highlights of the Portland Cre8Con Conference is the after-event party at the Wacom Studio. This is because Wacom has all of its wares out on display for testing. Their drawing tablets...