I have been looking for this capability in Google Sheets for a very long time, and finally someone built it! Big thanks to Christopher Evans for this. When data is color-coded and the only constant is the color of the cells or the fonts, sorting your data can be difficult. …
I didn’t mean for this to be a rant, but I think I was on the right blog to leave this comment: I was once a young teacher. It is not so far into my distant memory that I can’t vividly remember exactly what it felt like to be nervous …
Kristen Swanson models reflection better than almost anyone else I know. I find myself trying to rationalize this journey all of the time. But, it isn’t that I need a better answer to why I engage in community the way that I do, but rather it is that I need …
Setting goals for teachers is hard. First, I think these goals are brilliant. In particular, I think these goals are some of the best that I have seen for PD: 1. What is possible to do with technology that could not be done without it 2. Understand that learner questions …
This metaphor is wonderful for creating a relevant educator. I just wonder if we need to keep on recommending tools or if we can recommend ideas and approaches that are supported by tools. Your metaphor for relevance in the classroom is wonderful. While most of my salads have fewer ingredients …
At some point in the not too distant future, I will likely do a screencast on how to set up a Github Pages website using Jekyll like the one here: http://bhwilkoff.github.io/. For now, however, I just want to remember my favorite web-based github editor which is called Prose. I also think …
I keep coming back to this blog post and trying to come up with the next set of statements that allow us to move forward from the Church of the Right Answer. Here is what I’ve got so far: Trust is to be built, not leveraged. Copying and remixing are survival …
This came out a little while ago, but I keep coming back to it as a wonderful source of inspiration. The poetry of twitter and algorithms is special. Not always lovely, but definitely special. Poetweet.
I’m kind of in love with the simplicity of this badging structure. They have laid out all of the tasks that you would need in order to achieve at each level, but they have left off any of the step-by-step instructions. This means that you will need to figure out …
Sometimes, you simply need a poem to ask a really good question. This is a question I hope we never stop asking or answering. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? via Poetry 180 – The Summer Day (Library of Congress).