Tag Archives: youth digital

Still Life With 3D Printed Castle

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Meg
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What, No Glitter?

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Meg

Talking to my boss about what we can offer regarding girls and coding. He sends me this photo, tells me he ordered 10,000 of them for girl students, and that I am now in charge of the related pink-technology girls-in-STEM … Continue reading →

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Thanks, Team

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Meg

After working on projects where any office notes were passive-aggressive, and after struggling to produce good work with rapidly changing priorities, multiple rounds of “I’ll know it when I see it” approvals, and conflicting deadlines, I am especially grateful for … Continue reading →

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Success Marker

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Meg

One of my current App Design students took Game Design with me last year, and today he asked if I would please tell him the story of Cow Clicker again.

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Hello Kitty Around The Office

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Meg

I’m not saying you should never have me run a meeting, I’m just sharing a photo of an assignment from the meeting I ran today.

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Cursus Honorum

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Meg

At our sprint review meeting on Friday, we met two new team members. “I took a pretty unusual path,” said one of my new colleagues. “Before this, I lived in Beijing. I know that moving to China is not the most common path into teaching … Continue reading →

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Codeswitching

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Meg

I’m currently working on a core game, and I also teach programming for preteens. Today at the core studio, our server crashed in a way that meant hours of work for the whole team. While colorful language erupted around the … Continue reading →

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Spoiler: Aristotle

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Meg

My boss, in the midst of explaining why teaching is so important and how far teaching can reach, said sarcastically to my colleague, “Look how important Plato is. Everyone knows the teacher, but who’s ever heard of Plato’s students?” I … Continue reading →

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Imposter Syndrome, Part 273

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Meg

Meg: I’m working on your bio for our hipster startup profile, how many years have you been teaching? Colleague-who-will-not-be-named: Oh, man, I have no experience and no training. It’s a wonder anyone lets me teach their kids anything. Meg: What … Continue reading →

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Stories From Space Camp

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Meg

I have a new story, Star-Crossed, out in Stories From Space Camp. Stories From Space Camp is a scifi zine with an issue theme of assimilation / liberation. Star-Crossed is about aliens and alienation. Although I’ve been writing science fiction since I … Continue reading →

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