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How To: See Any Site as it Appears on Mobile

I was working on a Chrome Extension (feel free to download and use it) this evening and I noticed something awesome. If you right click on a webpag... Read more

Tin Can Phones, Windows, and Horizons

Tin Cans Twitter chats are often the first point of entry for developing a PLN. It was where I began. I randomly followed some people who had “Educ... Read more

Animate (SOME) of the GIFs!

Not all GIFs are created equal. Some just need a little help. I haven’t posted more than once in a day in a while, but I’m really excited about my ... Read more

Experimenting with Pictures

I have a permanent item on my to-do list which says, “make pictures better on the blog.” I don’t really know what that means in the long run, and t... Read more

Nine Skills

I’ve done a lot of writing this past week. I mean, a lot. Many late nights, cups of coffee, and pints of beer went into my body and magically flowe... Read more

Speech-to-Text to the Rescue

Have you ever tried to read an article or paper but gotten so bogged down with the vocabulary that you didn’t understand what was going on? This ha... Read more

Living the Connected Life

Everyone is connected. There are reports of so-called “disconnect anxiety” afflicting our society because our desire to know what’s happening all t... Read more

Khan Academy and the Missed Opportunity

I went to CUE 2014 this year in Palm Springs, Cali. If you’re not familiar with the conference, it’s the largest regional education conference on t... Read more

Changing Institutions

I’ve been reading James Paul Gee’s book, The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning. Without diving too deep into h... Read more

The Problem With Evolution…

…is that it’s kind of hard to teach. Sorry for the click bait…I couldn’t resist. This is an update for my master’s class on finding solutions to in... Read more

The SAT is Changing! (But Not Really)

The edtech land is losing their minds of the second major revision to the SAT in nine years’ time. In case you missed it. Horray! The SAT is finall... Read more

Presentation from ICM 2014

I was able to travel again this year to Germany to attend the Inverted Classroom Model (ICM) conference. Last year, I spoke about teacher approache... Read more

Help! Another Survey!

This Sunday, I’m jetting off to Germany for a one week, three city, two-conference tour with fellow TechSmithie, Anton Bollen. Part of my trip is s... Read more

Thought Traps

Another cross post, somewhat edited, from a recent MAET assignment. Below is a short reflection (slightly adapted for the post) I wrote comparing M... Read more

I Need Your Help

I'm not in trouble, though. I mentioned yesterday that I'm leading a conversation at Saturday's NovaNOW conference in Grand Rapids. The topic: Flip... Read more

Flip Flops and a GIMP Bump Map

I was working on a graphic to use as a promo for my debate this Saturday with Nate Langel at the NovaNOW conference in Grand Rapids. (sidebar – if ... Read more

On Student Achievement

The following is the text from an assignment I did for my current grad class. We were asked to read the Introduction and chapters 1 and 2 from Larr... Read more

Straddling the Line

“Walk the line” could work, too, but I’m no Johnny Cash. I moved to TechSmith nearly a year ago from teaching. All I ever wanted to do since starti... Read more

Argument in 140 – Part 2

I updated the original post, but I thought it would be worth having a brand new item for reference. As I said earlier, the @StopSBG account has bee... Read more

Arguments In 140

Update 8:00 AM Jan 7, 2013 – The @StopSBG account is now active again. Change is reflected below. Over the past 10 days, Twitter saw one of the mos... Read more

The Future Is What You Make It

See what I did there? That took a significant amount of brain power tonight. It must be the end of the semester. CEP811 is closing this week and fo... Read more

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Week seven of CEP811 is waning, and this has been a very busy week for me. I was in San Antonio Tuesday through Friday for a conference and then ca... Read more

Science, UDL, and Lesson Design (Maker Experiment 2)

This post is a revision of the original experiment I posted two weeks ago. The main purpose of this is to add more elements of Universal Design for... Read more

Google Voice Search Coming to Chrome

I’ve been ensconced in Chrome lately. I worked with the team at TechSmith who brought Snagit to Chrome and now, I’m researching different ways to m... Read more

Application of Intent – Design Experience #1

Design is the application of intent – the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. The quote I open this post with is from Robert L. ... Read more

What Are You Thankful For?

I’ll admit right at the beginning that this post is a shameless use of all facets of my network. This blog is one of those. So, if you’re someone w... Read more

I’ll Take it to Go

CEP 811 is steaming forward at full speed and we’re now getting close to finishing week four of the course. This week, we’ve been tasked with creat... Read more

Listening Past the TED Talk

I watched a TEDxBeaconStreet talk the other evening entitled “Reimagining Learning.” It started off well enough, with some good points about the ch... Read more

Maker Experiment #1

Another post in the series for CEP811, we’re really getting serious now as we begin to develop potential plans for our maker kits. Last week, I wro... Read more

Thrifting Brainstorms

I went to Goodwill this evening with Lindsey and Meredith. I had wanted to go for a while, and after not finding much in the clothing, I turned tow... Read more

What Does Connection Look Like?

October was Connected Educator’s Month. (Soapbox moment: I can’t wait until we can get rid of these silly “awareness months.” Okay, I’m done). I’ve... Read more

A “Radical New Teaching Model” That is Missing the Point

Wired business had an article come out earlier this month about a small school in Mexico that saw huge gains in learning because of some computers ... Read more

Bring on the MOOC

The eight weeks of remixing have kicked off for CEP811 at MSU. Right off the bat, our first task was to pick an edtech buzzword and use Mozilla’s P... Read more

I Learned a Lesson from my iPod

I drive a really long way to work twice week. I love what I do every day, which is why I choose to drive. To entertain myself I listen to a lot of ... Read more

Astronomy Project – Day 10

I made some quick additions this afternoon to my GitHub repo for this project, which I’ve renamed to PySky. I had to do some research on the Pyephe... Read more

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