Tony Farley's website, blog, videos, and photos.
Whoop whoop! I was awarded the Mayor’s Award of Excellence for my service to the San Leandro Community. The story on the SLHS.net website reads: “SAN LEANDRO, CA: At the December City Council meeting, San Leandro High School teacher Tony...
Join me on a tour of The Earthquake Trail in Point Reyes, California. Along the way, I stop at a few kiosks and explain the geology one can learn there. I then visit a place where the ground moved sixteen...
You would think that with all the physics books I have written and the fact that I teach physics, that I really love physics. I don’t. I have never done that well in physics classes and for the most part,...
Pothole Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite right off the Tioga road, that has an abundance of geologic features showing the effects of glaciers and water under pressure. Pothole Dome is located in Tuolumne Meadows. If you’re driving from...
Link to lesson here. I’m hard at work on my next project creating a physics and programming curriculum using the Unity 3D Game Engine (Unity3d.com). I’ve been kicking the idea around for a while but just have not had the...
So there I was with my friend Rick, taking pictures on a hill near Point Bonita when I hear a voice saying “excuse me sir do you know you need a permit to film here?” I’ve heard this before and...
I finished the video of the Grand Teton climb! The video premiered at The Ascent, a kickoff show for the new season of Climbing for Kids. The crowd loved the show. I talked to many prospective climbers and hopefully convinced some...
I took a snowy trek through Methuselah Grove. What a magical and beautiful place. I had the park to myself as the snow closed the road. I hiked a few miles into the park and then into the Grove.
Cheryl and I took a trip to Norway and I filmed this home-movie style show. We did the “Norway in a Nutshell” trip from Oslo to Flåm on the Flåm Railway, the Nærøyfjord, Gudvangen, the steep hairpin bends of Stalheimskleiva,...
Differentiated Instruction Tier 1 strategies that I use are mostly adaptations in delivery. I create step by step instructions, video instructions, and I deliver the content live first. In online education it is important to provide multiple pathways for students...
Fast for Nonviolence Topic Choice Activity Introduction The goal of this lesson is to allow my students to research different topics in the struggle for nonviolence and discuss their choices in an online forum on a Moodle site I...
Website to Netiquette Lesson shown above. What is Netiquette? Netiquette is a proper way of relating to other people online. It involves respecting one another, and treating people as human beings deserve to be treated even though communication is not...
Strategies Rationale Participation Social Interaction Shared Identity Individual Identity Knowledge Generation Ownership Students will create avatars with their image Students will be able to recognize each other from their forum posts x x x Students will post a hello message...
In my Teaching and Learning in Virtual Worlds course we have been challenged to teach a lesson in a virtual world to the rest of the class. Something I have always wanted to do was build learning experiences in Second...
My class was visited by Google representatives a couple years ago and I took the students on Google Expedition tours to Mars, Yosemite, and other teachers in my media academy used the tours for their classes. Last year, I didn’t...
In my continuing effort to learn App Inventor for use in computer science education, I used the MoleMash tutorial here to create a Whack-A-Mole-like game where a mole appears and you have to whack him with a mouse click to...
Above is my Second Life avatar (so far). I was able to change the hair to match mine, but other than that I’m wearing a standard outfit. That’s ok, you can spend hours fine tuning your look but I just...
MIT App Inventor (http://appinventor.mit.edu/) is a cloud-based programming environment that allows you to create apps in a web browser that can be tested on an Android emulator and then uploaded to an Android device. App Inventor’s app building environment uses...
My goal was to find some good mobile educational games. I’d love to find some educational experiences for my students that would put them into that gaming state of mind, where time and boredom cease to exist and play takes...
Augmented Reality (AR) has a lot of uses in education. The Game Pokemon Go is an AR game where you have to go to a place to find the Pokemon and then catch it. The game is hugely popular with...
1.1 Creating / 5.1 Theoretical Foundations / 5.4 Ethics / EdTech 506
21 Feb, 2016
1.1 Creating / 3.3 Assessing/Evaluating / EdTech 506 / Reflection
5 Mar, 2016
1.1 Creating / 3.1 Creating / AECT Standard 1 (Content Knowledge) / EdTech 506
13 Mar, 2016
Recent Comments