Charlie Reisinger (He/Him/His)

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Lancaster PA

Charlie is the CIO for Penn Manor School District in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and the author of The Open Schoolhouse.

Open Source Champion People's Choice Award 2014 Moderator's Choice Award 2016 Author Open education Contributor Club

Authored Content

Back to school with open source: Five tools for less stress and better learning

For parents: Shopping for back-to-school supplies, textbooks, clothing, and other accouterments can be frustrating and expensive. To help take the sting out of this ritual…

Student programming with Scratch and The Finch

The growing shortage of qualified programmers, computer scientists and software engineers is gathering significant attention in the media and popular press. Recent efforts…

How to do open research: 5 basic principles

How open source took root in one Pennsylvania school district

I’ve been working in educational technology for more than 17 years and have spent much of my career advocating for open source in schools. For years, open source in education…

Authored Comments

charlie

9 May 2015

Getting started with Minecraft Pi

Thanks for the great introduction to Minecraft PI, Ben. I shared your article with the student technology apprentice team at our high school.

charlie

22 Mar 2015

A Linux distro for education: UberStudent

UberStudent could be a useful and elegant introduction to Linux for those schools lacking the support resources needed to customize their own environments.Thanks for covering this distribution, Joshua!