Academic Interests:

• Active-Learning Techniques
  • Peer Instruction
  • POGIL
  • Just-in-time Teaching
  • Any other educational best practices
• Computing in Christian missions.
• Tools for teaching CS in middle schools and high schools.
• Teaching virtues while teaching computer science.

Research Projects:

• Investigating application and integration of Christian virtues into computer programming.
• ip_audit_v6
  • Student Charles Larson's senior project.
  • Ported ipaudit to work with IPv6.
  • Available at https://github.com/mister-c/ip_audit_ipv6
• Motion Capture with Xbox Kinect that generates Alice classes
  • Student Andrew Temple's senior project.
  • See https://github.com/FreedCapybara/KinectMotionCapturePrototype.
  • Demo can be seen here.
• Scratch+Kinect
  • Integrate Xbox Kinect with Scratch so you can control objects on the screen with your body!
  • Summer research with Isaac Zylstra.
  • Download packages from here and here.
• ScratchFoot
  • Automatic conversion of Scratch Projects to Greenfoot scenarios.
  • Summer research project with Jordan Doorlag.
  • Available here.
• Agora: Project Showcase
  • Senior project for Joel Stehouwer, Drew Campo, Andrew Lang, and Corwin Webster.
  • Allow anyone to run student projects, securely, in a browser.
  • Try it now!
  • Download it for your own use from here.
• Development of POGIL activities for Operating Systems and Networking.
• Integration of best-practice, student-centered, active learning techniques into CS classrooms.

Academic Conferences I Attend

• Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
• Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences (ACMS)
• Consortium of Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC:MW)