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It’s a Twitter Robot!

Update 8/20/2014 8:30 AM: I have deactivated the script for this Twitter bot. It was fun, and the process is below if you want to read more. But, t... Read more

Control Your Class…with RSS

A dangerous trend in education is the advent of the Learning Management System (LMS). Jim Groom writes about the danger of siloing our data across ... Read more

Sages and Lunatics: You May Be One

My previous three posts looked at ideas from John Spencer’s book Sages and Lunatics. I could go deeper because it is full of great discussion point... Read more

Sages and Lunatics: Blogs as the New EduText

This is the third post in a series reflecting on John Spencer’s Sages and Lunatics. Most of the books are practical manuals on how to run a classro... Read more

Sages and Lunatics: Danger in the Classroom

This is the second post in a series reflecting on John Spencer’s Sages and Lunatics The machete was dangerous that day. There is power that comes w... Read more

Sages and Lunatics: Teacher as Identity

This is the first post in a series reflecting on John Spencer’s Sages and Lunatics. A report came out in early May with data showing college studen... Read more

Let’s Go to Mars

No, not that Mars. FlipCon14 is coming up June 23-25. This is the 7th annual event, and I’ve had the privilege of watching it grow from 35 people i... Read more

Talk, talk, talk

Twitter mailase has set in big time. Twitter is dying! No, it’s just beginning! *I’m not sure I can really explain my own confusion or mixed feelin... Read more

Asking the Questions

Short post tonight. For the final assignment this semester, we were asked to read Thomas Friedman’s OpEd on Passion Quotient and Curiosity Quotient... Read more

Wicked Problem

Post Updated 4/27/14 9:15PM – Since writing this post, my group has finished our project. Rather than adding a separate post, I’ve updated the link... Read more

Tech and PD – Survey Results

Survey Analysis Last week, I distributed a short survey on technology and professional development. I’ve typed up some brief analysis, looking at m... Read more

Survey Time (again)

Blog readers, I come to you again asking for help with a survey. As many of you know, I’m working on a masters degree in education technology throu... Read more

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

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