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The Psychology of Classroom Discussions

I've never heard of the Asch Experiment, but this video is worth watching. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-gbpt7Ts8[/embed] [Kaplinsky's ... Read more

Back to School

It's appropriate to write a back to school post nearly a month into the school year. I took Twitter off my phone back in July in an effort to put m... Read more

Reading Summaries

I've decided to fire up a new, static website to reflect on books I read this year. In all honesty, much of this is bring prompted by my grad schoo... Read more

Yes, Relationships Matter

I'm in some grad classes right now and in one, we were assigned to discuss, "Does building relationships with students _really_ matter?" Prior to t... Read more

The Big Dig

Our septic system needed to be upgraded, so we took the hottest weekend of the year (so far) to do it. My wife's dad and brother spent the day with... Read more

Killing Pico (and Micro)

Earlier this year, I wrote up a really bare-bones blogging system I called [Pico](https://blog.ohheybrian.com/2018/04/pico-a-tiny-blog/). It's a Py... Read more

Moving back to WordPress

You might not have noticed (or you might have...who knows) but this site is now back on WordPress. I had shifted to Jekyll back in December for the... Read more

Reflector

I wrote this as a post to a discussion forum for grad school. It seemed fitting to post on the blog as well. It’s a response to a children’s story ... Read more

A Case for Better Course Design

Campus Technology published an article last week about a biomed course that saw mixed results from flipped instruction. The full article is open ac... Read more

Pico: A Tiny Blog

More of my life is run in plain text. I don’t really use word processors any more (other than Google Docs for work) because they’re heavy and not r... Read more

Mugs

Every Friday, our local NPR station has a segment called Michiana Chronicles which features essays by area writers. I don’t catch it often, but I h... Read more

Event Manager Web App

Adding to the list of things to blog so I don’t forget about them in the future, I built an event manager web app for prom. Sales Writing data to/f... Read more

Reclaiming Jekyll

In December, I moved off of WordPress to Jekyll. This is easy to do with GitHub Pages, but I wanted to self-host because keeping a SSL certificate ... Read more

Dynamic Data Validation with Apps Script

My coworker, Kat, needed to set up meetings with our 13 elementary schools. Appointment slots would have been a lot of clicking back and forth on c... Read more

Goolge Apps Script Knowledgebase Suite

This is another entry into the “fun, but probably not feasible” folder. A colleague and I have been trying to show the importance of getting a know... Read more

Planning a Flipped Unit Part 4

Now it’s down to the What of your unit. Standards have been identified and selected, themes established, and your main mechanism for assessment has... Read more

Will Hide Ads in Exchange for Bitcoin

Several articles swirled around early this week about Salon.com’s (sorry, not going to link it) new ad-blocking choice to users. You can: Disable y... Read more

Planning a Flipped Unit Part 3

Once you know why you’re teaching what you’re teaching, you need to define how you’ll know what students have learned or not learned. What task(s) ... Read more

Rebooting My Coaching

I planned, and ran, a really unsuccessful series of PD for a group of teachers this year. Unfortunately, I wasn’t wise enough to accept the non-suc... Read more

Planning a Flipped Unit Part 2

The biggest portion of the circle, the Why, defines everything you do in the unit. Before planning a single activity (or lesson), it is important t... Read more

Planning a Flipped Unit

The idea for this series was sparked when I was helping some people research sample flipped lessons for a curriculum workshop I was facilitating. I... Read more

Moving from WordPress to Jekyll

This is a long post in several parts. Jump to different sections using the links below. Introduction Exporting WordPress Hosting Comments Updating ... Read more

New Tab Flickr Background Extension

I’m part of digital-only secret Santa exchange. It’s a cool idea…you’re assigned someone you may (or may not know) and tasked with coming up with a... Read more

Slides Tweeter Update 4

I thought I was ready for some beta testing of the Slide Tweeter AddOn. Unfortunately, I’ve run into a snag with authenticating some of the code. W... Read more

Slides Tweeter Update 3

(Part 1, Part 2) I’m excited. A beta version of the Slides Tweeter AddOn will be ready this week. Two major updates helped get it to this point: Go... Read more

Link Google Forms to Bitly Automatically

Note 2024-03-20 - This post has been updated with a correct video embed as well as a GitHub Gist link for the source code. The code has not been te... Read more

Slides Tweeter Update 2

A short update to my post about tweeting Google Slides presentations after some work this weekend. – Working AddOn menu prototyped. – Check if a us... Read more

Tweeting Google Slides Automatically

An app called Keynote Tweet has been around (in various working and non-working states) since the late 2000’s and let users auto-tweet images of th... Read more

Glaringly “For-Profit”

Audrey Watters shared a Bloomberg article this morning on Silicon Valley-based AltSchool which is closing locations to focus on “strategy” and a “p... Read more

Drawing Shapes Is Hard

My wife is putting together a simple gift for our niece. Lest I spoil a surprise, I’ll be vague about the specifics. It required some hexagons. We ... Read more

Badging Patterns

Some more, mostly unfiltered thoughts on badging programs run at the K12 level. (Initial thoughts for some background from back in August.) – Artic... Read more

Parsing a JSON log feed with Python

I have several Google Sheets doing several things on their own through Google Apps Script. I’ve started to make it a habit that each action is logg... Read more

Indiana Education Paired Texts

March 2017 – Indiana to lose $56 million in public school funding under Trump budget September 2017 – Indiana receives $59 million grant to expand ... Read more

Ideas for Apps Script in Google Slides

Google Slides got a big update from Google this week, notably the inclusion of AddOns and Apps Script functionality. The UI updates are nice (grid ... Read more

Date Countdown in Sheets for Triggers

I have a Google Sheet which displays all upcoming PD in the district. It also tracks registrations for people through a web app. I’ve documented th... Read more

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