It was a busy July, working full time on the house. At the end of the month, we were nearly dried in and have started to shift our focus toward prepping the interior for mechanical work (HVAC, plumbing, and electrical). The house is really taking shape now that the roof is in the building. Much… Read More »
Last month, my family broke ground on a new house. Step 1: Dig a really big hole. Less than a year ago, we were just toying with the idea of building a house, and now we’re actually in the process of building. It’s surreal to think back on the original discussion and consider where we’ve… Read More »
My small team relies on automation to make things run. Part of our PD process is a Google Form workflow that kicks off calendar events, document creation, and email notifications. Since we’ve moved to online learning, we wanted to update that process to automatically add a Google Meet link for any PD that doesn’t have… Read More »
In a Canvas course, you can quickly check the number of missing assignments for single students relatively quickly. You can also message groups of students missing specific assignments from the analytics page (or the gradebook). What you can’t do is get a list of all students in a course and their missing assignments in a… Read More »
While schools are closed, we’ve moved much of our long term staff development material into Canvas. We have one long-running course with all staff split into site-based sections that has worked as a model for others. We needed a way to essentially duplicate the template course enrollments into new training courses. Ignorance is bliss (sometimes)… Read More »
tl;dr: The DocuTube addon will be removed from the Marketplace at the end of June, 2020. If you’re a programmer and you want to take over ownership of the project, let me know. Three years ago, I wrote a proof of concept Google Docs app that found YouTube links and displayed videos embedded in a… Read More »
This is a technical post. Read on for code and commentary. In moving to online, we’ve tried to streamline all of our communication through Canvas. The goal is to cut down on disconnected email threads and encourage students to use submission comments to keep questions and feedback in context. The Problem Many students had already… Read More »
I started a small project to clean up my personal photo hosting. I’m currently using an app written in PHP, but it’s way over my head and does way more than I want or need. So, I’m taking this opportunity to roll my own backend API for photo storage and serving. I’m building it in… Read More »
I just finished packing up our first house, to be put on the market tomrorow morning after living here for eight years. As I moved from room to room making small repairs this morning, I thought back on the time, sweat, and energy we’ve poured into it. We bought the house after ignoring it for… Read More »
I was given a good challenge by our secondary curriculum coordinator a couple weeks back. He wanted to know how we get in front of standards-based grading being reduced to collections of isolated skills. In other words, we’re doing well tracking our essential standards over time, but those are more or less in isolation (not… Read More »
