I wish my teacher knew more about the students in my class.  In the 7th grade, I knew a student named Phoenix. Even though I hadn’t spoken to him much it was pretty clear to me that he was an at-risk ...

I missed the 6 million mark...but I'm going to help us reach 15 million now...downloading Google Fit right now!

Measuring contract cheating"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it"* is the inspiration behind this blog post. In this post, I discuss why a way to measure contract cheating is necessary and pr...

Abstract: The hardest part about contract cheating is quantifying the problem. We can't do much about the former, but we're trying to change the latter. That is, we are trying to quantify contract che...

 @kmeeusen  I am honored that you chose to share my post with your school. These are things I never got to talk with my own teachers, and I guess I found a home in this community in that aspect. How l...

The search-based interface of the modern web has one key problem: how do you search for something you don't know exists?Learning is getting exposed to the yet unknown, and we have to pause and reflect...

Alright, I just saw, your peers have to grade the visual and audio delivery as well. I think the problem is that speedgrader and DB are not designed for your use-case and more for text-based stuff. Di...

I'm glad you didn't find it stupid! And is my assumption correct that the videos are self-hosted on YouTube or something? On that note, do you only need to grade the content (text only) or also the st...

It seems half your activity is clicking around things, and that's making you frustrated! Probably a stupid question, but I'm just trying to help, do you get a text of the speeches on SpeedGrader to gr...

This is neat stuff! It would be cool if you can hook it up with the Canvas API so teachers can get summaries or inquire it for who hasn't submitted yet without clicking around. Btw, have you played Ra...