Today (March 26, 2025) marks my six-year anniversary with the Scratch Foundation and just a few months shy of two years as a Learning Resource Designer. Being a small but mighty team means I’ve had lots of opportunities to create educational and fun materials to help others learn about and engage with Scratch and creative…
Published Pieces
I appreciate the opportunity to write and speak about creative coding with kids, WordPress, and freelancing. Original posts, as well as links to my guest posts on other blogs, are below.
My 2024 as a Learning Resource Designer
2024 was certainly a busy year for me as a Learning Resource Designer for the Scratch Foundation. As I look back on all I created and accomplished this year, I’m really proud of the work that I did and how I challenged myself this year. A few numbers: 85+ Scratch projects over various accounts 24+…
Day in My Life as a Learning Resource Designer
I thought it might be fun to share a short “day in my life as a Scratch Learning Resource Designer” and a small tour of my personal office space, as I work remotely from home. I’d shared something similar while a student with Skillcrush years ago. (You may also want to checkout my post “Growing…
Growing My Coding Education Portfolio: Reflecting on My First Year as a Scratch Learning Resource Designer
I’ve been a member of the Scratch Team in various roles since the Spring of 2019, but in the past year, I was privileged to move into a dream role and become a Learning Resource Designer for the Scratch Foundation. Whether working for my university, in the publishing industry as a managing editor for Random…
Tinkering at the Logo Summer Institute
I had a really great experience at the Logo Summer Institute this week! Thank you to the organizers and wonderful presenters. I attended the virtual week and am thankful sessions running concurrently were recorded so I can spend time in the coming weeks catching up on lessons I missed while live in others. There were…
Sharing My Growing Anti-Bias Resource List
Note: This post was last updated December 10, 2021, so some links below may be changed or no longer working. Thank you to those who have written in with suggestions of articles to add to this post, book recommendations, etc. So many amazing resources have been created since that time (including a lot of thoughtful…