So I tend to do some slightly ridiculous things. In this case I wanted to be able to make my fire spinning a little flashier, so I learned how to light my hands on fire to transfer the fire from one end of my staff to another. Is it a good idea? Probably not. Does […]
Read more "I’m Hot (Literally)"For the EdTech Resource creation project a Twine guide was created. This guide will walk any user through how to use twine based on what the participant is interested in learning to do. Each step is explained using simple language so it can be used for high school students or teachers, and each one provides […]
Read more "Twine Twine!"So, my progress with the staff has hit a bit of a stalling point. I’ve become fairly adept at the modified wall plane rotor that I was taught, and have managed to slip in the act of throwing it in the air and catching it again. I even figured out how to roll it over […]
Read more "Spinning Fire properly is hard!"Since I am still unable to spin fire for another few days I have decided to put together a post detailing the history of poi and where it came from. Next week I should be allowed to spin again, though only for short periods of time. This has honestly been one of the biggest frustrations […]
Read more "The Origins of Poi"So I had a group presentation this week. Was it stressful? Only a little bit, but that’s because we were trying to fit a lot of presentations into a time frame that barely fits them. So when both groups go over a little bit and I’m watching the seconds tick by then it does get […]
Read more "Group Presentations can ROCK!"This post is brought to you a week late by technical issues I never addressed because I didn’t. It got stuck in the limbo of being a draft, and was never published until just now. This weeks worth of classes has been interesting. It has gone from being a relatively calm classroom experience back the […]
Read more "Exams and Presentations"Tuesday, October 6th. The Big Day. This day started like most others. I woke up, made my kids their lunches, took them to school, returned home to grab my bike and a bunch of discs for disc golfing that day, and set off back to the school. My plans for the day involved going for […]
Read more "Proof I have a heart!"So this week has been a blur. This reflection will be more of a “how gracious my instructors are” rather than a “this is what I understood from the week. I started my week with great intentions. I picked up my kids on Monday after school, on Tuesday I realized (thanks to my 336 pod) […]
Read more "Attacking the Week with All my Heart!"My childhood was not a stationary one, from roughly the ages of 3-9 I was never in one city more than a month or two at most, from 9-12 I wasn’t in any one house, but in the same city, for more than three months. It did lead to any form of stability, and so […]
Read more "English Language Arts Biography"Last weekend I had the opportunity to build practice staves with my kids, and one of their friends. We had a blast in this process, as documented in my previous update. At the end of the weekend we had our first lessons in how to use these staves. It did not take too long for […]
Read more "The first lessons in Fire Spinning — Stop Hitting Yourself"