Innovation

bringing innovation to the classroom using hands-on technology

  1. App on Track: Learn It and Make It with Craftsy

    App on Track: Learn It and Make It with Craftsy

    We are taking this app around the track to find out what’s under the hood! We’ll tell you if it’s worth your time, if what we find is any good. Unleash your creativity with Craftsy! Find out how to bring ideas to life and create projects that make you proud. Craftsy has more than 500 online classes in photography, cake decorating, cooking, and painting.

  2. Intro to Audio Editing for Students: Part One

    Intro to Audio Editing for Students: Part One

    From something as quiet as a whisper, to as loud as a concert; sound is everywhere. As many technologies have advanced our capacity to record and edit video, so have audio technologies advanced as well. News articles are now turning into audio edited podcasts; new tools have been created to modify beats and soundtracks.

  3. Throwback Thursday! Moore's Law

    Throwback Thursday! Moore's Law

    This is not a law of physics nor of nature but an observation about the rate of advancement in computing. “Moore’s law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years—this roughly translates into the speed of computing doubling every two years.”

  4. Throwback Thursday! Player–Pianos, 3G, GPS, and Bluetooth

    Throwback Thursday! Player–Pianos, 3G, GPS, and Bluetooth

    Ever call someone and accidentally hear a conversation between two people you’ve never met, you just happened to tune in to their phone line? As far as I understand it, one of the mechanisms developed to prevent interference or unauthorized connections, especially between devices connected by radio waves, is called frequency hopping.

  5. Lions And Tigers And Bears, Oh My: 3D Modeling And Animation

    Lions And Tigers And Bears, Oh My: 3D Modeling And Animation

    My first foray into 3D modeling and animation was this past weekend and, by no means do I consider myself an expert on the subject. What I can do is tell you what I have found so far, and promise you all that this journey, in fact, will continue and I will happily post the various good tutorials and any reference materials I find for the tools I am about to describe in this post.

  6. A Perspective On Innovation With Today's Technology

    A Perspective On Innovation With Today's Technology

    As one of the participants in the amazing World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS Forum) in 2012, I remember being present for a truly wonderful workshop that involved the following question: “Imagine it’s the year 2050. Today is the 25th anniversary of a breakthrough innovation that happened in 2025. What was it? And, how did it help change the world?

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