My name is Nathan, and I am a teacher at heart. Being a teacher requires you to be an avid learner. From teaching visual art to high schoolers to teaching my friends the art of zymurgy, I am passionate about learning. I enjoy watching hours of disc golf videos on youtube just to find that one thing that will improve my putting. With the mentality of a hacker, I will break apart code until I can understand how it works.
I have always been burdened with the need to understand how things work. I recall dismantling my grandmother's VCR as a kid (one of those old top loading kind). I wanted to understand how the thing worked. Really this defines my whole approach to problem solving - I dissect problems into smaller parts until I can see the big picture. The destructive analysis often leads to intuitive leaps that fuel my creativity.
Educational technology is the melting pot of my soul. Everything I love to do connects to it. I see my role in the educational field as both a teacher and a coach. Telling educators what kind of technology to use is easy, but coaching them through implementation is the fun part.
Join me on Twitter, because I'm curious what you can teach me.