Teaching
First Two Weeks of Student Teaching
As of today, I have completed my first two weeks of student teaching at A. A. Stagg High School! I began last week during the first two institute days at school. Officially, my student teaching experience wasn’t supposed to begin until yesterday. However, after communication with my two cooperating teachers, I was allowed to begin early in order to further my teaching experience at the fastest possible rate. The first few days were filled with…
Personal Projects
The Creation of a Self-Hosted Nextcloud
I host a home server at my house. I use this home server for many important things, such as running a DNS server and running various virtual machines through the self-hosted program KASM. The way that I do this is through an old, retired laptop computer as well as a retired desktop PC. These devices are both running Proxmox, an open-source server solution for personal and professional use. I cluster these two devices, meaning that…
Teaching
AI Language Models in the Classroom
When I first discovered Chat GPT in December of 2022, I knew that it, and other programs that are similar, would play a major role in the classrooms of 2023 and beyond. As I sat on this information for a couple months, the programs quickly became better and better. At the same time as I was learning to use these types of programs in an efficient and ethical way, my father, who is also a…
Personal Projects
Creation of my Personal Website and Email
I have worked on a lot of personal projects related to the usage of technology. Over the past year, I have completely converted an old laptop and an old desktop into a home server. The amount of time and effort which that took is made very small by the amount of work that has gone into the creation of this personal blog. The first, and most important, tool that I learned to use in the…