Posts · Ari Bader-Natal

Ari Bader-Natal

I post essays and articles right here.
I post notes on Twitter at @aribadernatal and @studiosketchpad. I also self-host a copy of both streams [1,2], but only update these once a year.
I auto-post interesting things I find online on my favelog at https://favorites.aribadernatal.com.

Blog Posts

2016

Saving Favorites, Amber Edition

The Favelog Writes Itself

2015

Let's Encrypt, Cloudfront Edition

New Code - wp-pressthis-button

Multi-file sketches on Sketchpad Blog

Libraries, finally! on Sketchpad Blog

Sun on Fog Blog

Streams on Fog Blog

Fog burns off on Fog Blog

P5-for-5 on Sketchpad Blog

Sketch Anywhere on Sketchpad Blog

Homebrew Website - 2015 Edition

2014

Tidying up on Sketchpad Blog

2013

Gartner thinks Sketchpad is "cool" on Sketchpad Blog

2012

Sketchcasting - Next-generation screencasting for code on Sketchpad Blog

Why I'm excited about Khan Academy Computer Science

Back to school

Khan in the classroom?

2011

Building four communities for learning, tinkering, and remixing with code on Sketchpad Blog

Learning from comments on YouTube

Can online learning be personalized without being anti-social?

Verifying accuracy of math expressions converted from HTML to Markdown on Mechanical Turk Blog

Inspired by a deck of cards on Sketchpad Blog

Badges are shiny little certifications

New publication: "Nine Activities Within A Self Directed Learning Environment"

Grockit is a finalist in the Next Generation Learning Challenges

MiniSketches on Sketchpad Blog

What I cannot create, I do not understand on Sketchpad Blog

New publication: "Evolving A Learning Analytics Platform"

Unlocking compliments with Google Translate on Sketchpad Blog

Toss that sketch over the wall on Sketchpad Blog

Forget UserVoice and GetSatisfaction. Send me your feature requests through YouTube on Sketchpad Blog

Super Disco Sketchin' - It's all about the process on Sketchpad Blog

New publication: "Methodologies And Technologies"

2010

Swim - the game on Sketchpad Blog

Untitled, by anonymous on Sketchpad Blog

Sketch snapshots on Sketchpad Blog

Mozilla Labs night talk, abbreviated on Sketchpad Blog

More sketches from USU on Sketchpad Blog

Fancy footerwork on Sketchpad Blog

Code beautiful on a sunny day on Sketchpad Blog

Fork it, fix it, report back on Sketchpad Blog

Clone your own on Sketchpad Blog

Welcome, USU! on Sketchpad Blog

ashhh on Sketchpad Blog

Sketchpad's first game on Sketchpad Blog

Sketchpad hosts images on Sketchpad Blog

Teaching basketball with textbooks

A value-added analysis of student engagement?

I caved

Johan's waves on Sketchpad Blog

Education 2.0 is on the Radar

New publication: "Combining Peer Assistance And Peer Assessment"

Building on other sketches licensed under CC-BY-SA on Sketchpad Blog

The as yet undreamt of things that will be displayed on Sketchpad Blog

Etherpad + Processing = Sketchpad. The studio is now open. on Sketchpad Blog

Building on other sketches licensed under CC-BY-SA on Sketchpad Blog

Teaching, learning, and fishing

Do students spend more time solving appropriate challenges?

Zipbike: Host a bike-share in a car-share

Education for an Open Web

Learning lessons in startups

World Maker Faire, NYC

What is the "source code" of education?

Upcoming digital learning meetups

What this isn't

Learning networks are about social search

Announcing Grockit's Summer 2010 Graduate Research Internship

QuestionLab on the DML

Signs of a #leanstartup in the Etherpad source code

2009

The sidewalker's dilemma

The iPhone solves the bus-stop problem

New publication: "Interaction Synchronicity"

New publication: "Incorporating Game Mechanics"

How to iterate towards your ideal commuter

Contributing to the Grockit blog

2008

Moving from the Bay State to the Bay Area

Reblogged: An All-Automatic CVT Based Bicycle

The NuFixie Challenge: Can you build a fixed-effort bicycle?

Review: Monkeylectric's Monkey Light bike wheel spoke light

How many different ways can you misspell "accommodation"?

New publication: "The Teachers Dilemma"

The water bottle is the Altoids tin of bicycling hacks

"Big Book of Apple Hacks" is now shipping

PhD (wool socks)

Assorted links for the multi-modal commuter

Basic accounting for bicycle commuters

New publication: "Incorporating Students Probabilistic Expectations"

2007

My top picks from the "Innovate or Die" contest

Bits and Bikes at MIT: CPU cycling

User-Initiated Privacy for Web Applications

70 pound commuting

Berry.app: Never released, but still fun

My ideal bike map

The 50,000-minute cell phone

iHome iH85B review (an iPod speaker for your bicycle)

Coevisualizer: Software for coevolutionary simulations

New publication: "Evaluating Problem Difficulty Rankings"

New publication: "Assessing Learning In A Peer Driven Tutoring System"

2006

New publication: "Multi Domain Platform For Reciprocal Peer Driven Tutoring Systems"

2005

New publication: "Motivating Appropriate Challenges In A Reciprocal Tutoring System"

New publication: "Metrics And Visualizations Sensitive To Coevolutionary Failures"