Several years ago, my wife took a short beekeeping course with her mom. They tried a hive in their backyard a few times, but the colonies never survived. The hive sat unused for at least a year until last May when a swarm decided to move in. I decided that I wanted to try my… Read More »
One of my favorite things about Google Apps Script is that I can get information from an API and write it directly to a shared document or spreadsheet. Information is collected automatically and immediately available to a group of people working on that same doc. It’s not uncommon for these requests to come back in… Read More »
We’re in a situation where staff are overwhelmed. Teachers are feeling under water all the time, trying to make materials to support online learning. I’m in the position to provide those supports, but we’re looking for two different things. Money solves problems, but we can’t buy a thing to get out of this. There is… Read More »
In 2013, I wrote up how to record Google Hangouts in high quality for podcasting or whatever. This post is how to essentially do the same, but for piping audio into Google Meet from any source on your computer. Just like before, this article is written for Mac OS because that’s what I have. If… Read More »
We’re getting ready to launch a digital teaching and learning course for staff that is based on the TPACK framework. A few years ago, we started our 1:1 training by coaching teachers through using SAMR to design lessons which really use the technology in new ways. This time, we’re having teachers do more metacognitive reflection… Read More »
This is a revisit to a post I wrote four years ago in which we used a spreadsheet and Google’s nifty little hidden JSON data endpoint to serve data to a Chrome extension. Without going too deep, the extension needed to be updated. I took this chance to refactor using modern Javascript rather tha jQuery… Read More »
We started our school year today. We have a split group of teachers who are fully online and a group who is hybrid, two days in school and three days online. To make our support manageable, my counterpart and I have worked to infuse systems that support both 100% online and the hybrid model of… Read More »
This fall, I started to revisit my personal productivity habits. We lost a team member last spring and we won’t be replacing that role, which means I have more to keep track of day to day as we absorb some of those responsibilities. I’ve written before about using plaintext for productivity, which was great. I… Read More »
My district is entering a phase where students are in one of two situations: fully online or a hybrid with two days in person and three days online. The goal of this structure is to provide a safe space for students who need it without mandating that all students come back to the building and… Read More »
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 »
