2026: A Summer of Learning
I have some incredible learning opportunities that I'll be participating in this summer. One of those is a personal project, which I'm just getting…
Engineering & Robotics Educator
Two decades in engineering and robotics education — coaching FIRST (FLL, FTC, FRC) and VEX teams, and building curriculum for classrooms from K–12 through college.
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All posts → MACUL 2019: Making Meaning Through Making
Sarah Van Loo and I will be presenting the MACUL Conference 2019 in Detroit, MI, sharing both a 3-hour pre-conference workshop, as well as a 1-hour…
Presenting at PLTW Summit Indianapolis
I'm excited to share that I will be presenting twice at the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Summit in Indianapolis, IN, in February 2019. PLTW Summit…
iiE Profile: Bill Van Loo, The Maker-Educator
iiE Profiles introduce interesting people in the Institute for Innovation in Education community. The first batch were based on interviews done by…
Sign up for my MACUL workshop on March 18, 2015!
I'm delighted to announce that I will be leading a pre-conference workshop at the 2015 MACUL conference in Detroit, Michigan. My workshop, on Wednesday…
New videos: GEMMA, NeoPixels, and PiFace!
Reflection on my teaching and the tools I use has long been a part of my teaching practice, and I have a few new videos to share. The first is from a…
A new adventure: STEAM @ Northside
It is with greatly mixed emotions that I'm posting this today. I have accepted a new position with Ann Arbor Public Schools, as the Ed Tech lead teacher…
#michED Podcast 6: Creating, Doing, Making
I'm honored to be included in the latest #michED podcast. This issue deals with the Maker movement and creativity in schools, and features a conversation…
Blogging <i>Mindstorms</i>: Introduction
I decided not to take a graduate class this winter semester, due to a couple of factors (time and money, primarily). However, I was very pleased to be…
2013 in review - teaching
It's a little unusual wrapping up a school year in a calendar-year format, since of course the school year spans a different time period. However, there…
2013 Spring Conference Season!
Spring conference season is almost upon me! Every year in March for the past few years, I have been able to attend two great conferences. I've been…
2012 year in review - teaching
The big news in my teaching career this year is that I started my Master's degree at Eastern Michigan University in the Educational Media and Technology…
gearing up for ITEA
I'm in the process right now of gearing up for the ITEA national conference next week, which takes place in Louisville, KY. I'll be co-presenting along…
Spring Break is almost over!
Spring break is almost over, and it was filled with behind-the-scenes work, the kind of stuff you never really think much about but which need to get…
Summer wrap-up
In a few short hours, a new school year will start. I just finished reading my last book of the summer, and so now it's time for a bit of wrap-up about…