When your students graduate, you need to disable their accounts. Doing it one by one in the Google Workspace admin panel can be tedious. I created this BASH script that uses GAM to do all the work for me.
Category: EdTech
Wetlands Scratch Games
For our last project in 5th grade Design + Code + Make this year we did an integrated unit with Science. The students learned about the wetlands biome (our school is located near the Ballona Wetlands). Each student was assigned an animal that is found in the wetlands. They researched the animal and created games/animations…
#SpringCUE Presentation – Creating equitable classrooms for neurodivergent students
Thank you to everyone who attended my session on Saturday! Here is my presentation: http://www.bradleywwright.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Equitable-Classrooms-for-Neurodivergent-Kids.pdf
Pong Breaker
We’re doing a Scratch unit with 5th grade right now so I created this game to remind myself how everything works. It’s been a while since I did anything in Scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/500320374/
Yearbook Photos vs. the Pandemic
We haven’t had kids on campus to get their school photos taken this year. So, I decided to have parents take yearbook portrait photos themselves and upload them via a Google Form. The problem: the spreadsheet created by the Google form has a link to the uploaded file but doesn’t include the actual name of…
EdTech vs. TechEd
I attend a lot of conferences, meetings, and workshops aimed at educational technology professionals as part of my job. Something I see too often is a conflation of these two concepts: educational technology and technology education. I think it’s vital to make the distinction. Remembering that these are two separate things helps clarify our goals…
Airplane Prototype
I’m preparing a 5th grade project where the students will design and laser cut rubber band powered airplanes. This is my first prototype. I definitely need to angle the wings to create more lift and use a lighter material.
G4 is lost! Text based adventure game.
As a quarantine project, my son and I created this text based adventure game. He designed it and I helped him program. He’s 7 so expect weirdness. He got into this via Zork which we played to help with his reading. GO TO THE GAME
Flossbot
I’m teaching a robotics challenge elective this spring over Zoom. I meet with the students once/week and give them a new challenge. The challenge this week is to make a robot that can ‘floss’. This is my attempt: