Monthly Archives: June 2020

Nothing like a cup of python in the morning. Did I say that right? This week I dipped my toes into Computer Vision and Machine Learning. My first program captures a live video feed from my webcam and uses pre-trained … Continue reading →

     Week two is in the bag! Monday, the learning curve and intensity level increased. We engaged in a conversation about how we could tie our proposed lesson plan to our “main” objective. At this point, research is in full … Continue reading →

Hello access! This week we requested that Mary (our intern) upload our whole curriculum up, so we could work on our own pace. You’ll notice that each of the RETs will be doing their own thing. We started the week … Continue reading →

The goal for our research this week was to be able to display a webcam stream using OpenCV. To complete this task, I decided to follow the OpenCV tutorials  The tutorial walks you step-by-step through every task, giving you the … Continue reading →

For our first assignment we had to use OpenCV to stream our webcam.  I was excited to start immediately. Fortunately their documentation was superb and right away I was able to use the OpenCV library and python code to stream … Continue reading →

Ill Tidings It’s been such a strange time. It feels as though 2020 has taken another drastic turn and this time eyes turn to Texas in the tale of the COVID-19 infections. I cannot say I am not scared, even … Continue reading →

When my colleague forwarded me an email about a summer computer science research experience at Rice for teachers I thought, “this MUST be a gimmick”. NO WAY they’re going to have a bunch of secondary teachers actually try something difficult. … Continue reading →

Not The Dreaded Doom The first time I heard of and vaguely understood the phrase “machine learning” was roughly a year ago in a piece featured by Science Daily. I am loosely summarizing when I say that the point was … Continue reading →

Our Summer Web-Based Institute for Technologies in CompSci and Healthcare (SWITCH) had a great start this week. It was such a wonderful opportunity to be able to meet, collaborate and share with educators who shared my passion for Computer Science … Continue reading →

    I am proud to be a member of the SWITCH – PATHS-UP research program. For the first time, the SWITCH program will be completely virtual. Week one has been a whirlwind. I cannot believe we are one week down.     Monday, we all … Continue reading →