Projects

Architect is an agent-native learning design and authoring tool for building Sparkwise modules.

Sparkwise automates live group learning — scaling up the active engagement people need to build skills in business, AI, and more.

Unexpected questions and lateral thinking prompts for AI tools.

Sketchpad is a website that allows people to collaboratively code and share interactive visualizations written with Processing and P5.js. Online since 2010.

Calbright College is a California's new online community college, offering job-focused programs designed to be fast, focused, and free.

An Interested Parties Memo documenting six key issues with CCCApply and OpenCCC, the application system shared by all California Community Colleges, with concrete recommendations for each.

Minerva demonstrates a new approach to higher education, built intentionally from the ground up. I worked closely with Minerva's academic team to imagine and build the technologies that make this possible.

Favelog is a self-generating website that archives and catalogs my personal collections of favorites, saves, stars, and likes across the many services that I use online.

The Waveback Machine was a little app that turned your computer into a short-hop time machine.

Sketchcasting was an addition to Sketchpad that allows individuals to record and share screencasts of collaborative coding sessions that are interactive, forkable, and pixel-free.

Grockit Answers was a Q&A site that I built at Grockit in 2011 to replace YouTube comment threads on educational videos with useful peer-to-peer discussions.

Grockit was a social+adaptive learning platform for problem-based small group study. I worked on many aspects of this platform from 2008-2012.

SpellBEE was a website supporting synchronous peer-tutoring games that I ran from 2000-2008. Experiments run on the site served as the basis for some of the data analysis in my doctoral dissertation.

Page Axe was a proof-of-concept Mac app, demonstrated a way to "bring your own security" to any third-party web application.

The best-selling Flip video camera was originally packaged as a $25 »disposable« camera that only allowed for 20 minutes of recording. Some enterprising hackers figured out how to jailbreak the device allowing for reuse, and I wrote some Mac apps to automatically import footage and burn a DVD when a jailbroken camcorder was plugged into the computer. After abandoning the single-use business model and allowing for easy downloading and sharing, the Flip video camera took off.

Berry was a proof-of-concept Mac app, demonstrating how a personal laptop could act as a personal cloud server accessed via my low-tech dumbphone via an SMS-based DSL.

Coevisualizer was a Mac application providing an experimental testbed for running and visualizing simulations of coevolutionary algorithms.

RollerCAD was a class project to create CAD software for roller coasters. This was one of those great experiences where our team became obsessed with improving the application, forgetting that it was just a class assignment.