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Mask Text in Keynote on the iPad

Keynote has image masking built in. Masking allows you to more or less shape a picture in a frame. A simple example would be showing a portion of a... Read more

Change Document Ownership with Apps Script

My Google account is managing a lot of document creation at school. I set up a lot of autoCrat projects to create docs alongside several utility sc... Read more

The Great YouTube Migration

It's begun. This summer, YouTube deactivated brand accounts for GSuite Education domains. A brand account is essentially a shared account for teams... Read more

DocuTube Dev Update

Some quick notes of my progress on updating DocuTube in the Docs Addon store: Search by Default Search videos in the addon popup window Video, chan... Read more

The Boot Loop Returneth

I have an aging Macbook Pro. It's older than my children and starting to show it's age. Before I remove Mac OS and replace it with Linux, I'm tryin... Read more

Automating Things Worth Reading

The more I use Tiny Tiny RSS (TTRSS) for keeping up with blogs, the more I find it can do. For instance, I can publish specific feeds of curated it... Read more

Spit and Tape to Get Some Data

We're using Canvas LMS in our district. There are some things I appreciate and things I appreciate...less. One of which is when a main feature does... Read more

A Quick Grading Case Study

I ran the following example with a small group of teachers evaluating standards-based grading in their PLC. The teachers are on board (and all are ... Read more

Setting Custom Search Engines

This post is specifically for browsers that use the Chromium engine (Chrome [duh], but also anything on this list) but most browsers have a similar... Read more

Creating a New User Onboard in WordPress

I'm finishing up a website for a private project which allows for people to register and create posts as members. The client wanted to have a speci... Read more

Canvas LMS is Missing a Big Opportunity with Outcomes

Every year, I'm building more support for standards based grading within our district. Though Canvas isn't really set up for SBG, there is a way to... Read more

No, Retakes Are Not a Bad Idea

There's an Edutopia article cycling around which argues against allowing retakes on assessments. The author builds a case focused on motivation, me... Read more

On Being a Parent of Four

We had our fourth child, a boy, on June 28th. Since then, life has sped up in some ways and slowed down in others. I'm fortunate to have the entire... Read more

Brute Force Bike Lock

Two years ago, we took our kids to the north shore of Michigan for a camping trip. Part of that included a day on Mackinac Islad with the girls and... Read more

What is a Grade?

I had the pleasure of working with about 15 people yesterday on moving to standards-based grading next year. We started off with a long discussion ... Read more

Change Course Role in Canvas via the API

Continuing my Canvas excursions... We recently made a change where teachers could not manually add students to their courses. The change was made b... Read more

Creating a Curated RSS Feed with TinyTiny RSS

I've been using Tiny Tiny RSS (TTRSS) for several months now and I'm finally getting into some of the more advanced uses. It's more than just an RS... Read more

Lightning Fast Spotify Playlists

Update After posting this and tagging WDBM on Twitter, they sent the following: Hey Brian! We upload our playlists on Impact89fm’s Spotify every we... Read more

Methods of Calculating Grades in SBG

I'm prepping a full-day workshop on standards based grading for about 20 teachers in a couple weeks. One major part of the day will be centered on ... Read more

Adding Assignment Statuses to the Canvas SpeedGrader

Here's another little script I hammered out for Canvas today. With the new gradebook, you can set assignment statuses like "late" and "missing." Th... Read more

Managing Standards Based Grades in Canvas LMS

I'm trying to make standards-based grading more approachable for my teachers. When I was teaching full time, I held to Frank Noschese's Keep It Sim... Read more

10 Years

Today is my 10th anniversary. Read more

Making RSS Feeds for Instagram

tl;dr: I have a hacky proof-of-concept method for getting an Instagram account as an RSS feed. It uses Python and you can grab the source files her... Read more

Grace Hopper Models a Billionth

This is worth watching. When we're describing principles to students - especially concrete thinkers - modeling and finding concrete examples of abs... Read more

A Critical Gradebook

I am finding the right balance of scaffolding to provide the best learning environment for my students. Source: A Critical Gradebook The gradebook ... Read more

New law will require Indiana high schoolers to take US citizenship test - FOX59

The new law in Indiana doesn’t say that students have to pass the test, but it does require them to take it to be able to graduate. Source: New law... Read more

Bent

My car stopped running suddenly on the Indiana toll road about 10 days ago. The timing belt decided to break, which makes the car not want to do an... Read more

KQED on Active Engagement, Not Compliance

More than that, the characteristics should be observable to anyone who walks into the room. We work hard with our teachers to make sure they're cha... Read more

Spring Broke

Spring break finishes tonight, so this is the "what we did over spring break" post in case any of my old teachers are reading the blog these days. ... Read more

My Phone is a Phone. (Mostly.)

I have a love/hate relationship with phones. Several years ago, the "shitphone" post on Medium caught my attention and made me start thinking more ... Read more

Spring

We heard the first group long before we could see them. Almost as small as long-distance airliners, the Sandhill crane call is distinct, clear. The... Read more

Planning the AR Study

Some initial thoughts on my action research design as I get ready to write up the study methods and timeline: Since I already have data to look thr... Read more

Considering PD Structures

I'm in the midst of an action research course and my topic is evaluating and reflecting on our systems of PD in the district. This post is the lite... Read more

More Redefinition...

From a post last week where I continued to refine my research question: How does continuity of study (ie, a PD sequence rather than a one-off works... Read more

Connections

This is a copy/paste of a post I wrote in a graduate class. I'm posting it here so I can get back to the ideas after the blackboard course finishes... Read more

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