Category: Blog
What I'm Using: Atom (an amazing open sourced text editor)
I am a huge fan of quick and dirty text editing. I am now in love with this application. Atom A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Love Letter to Connected Teachers and Learners
This video demonstrates the one of the most fundamental ways I look to connect educators: Online Roundtable Discussions. This project has allowed me to facilitate conversations with hundreds of educators throughout 2014, and has sparked even greater numbers of conversations after each one. The video shows just a few of …
Setting Up Your Mac to Run Any Android App You Want Using Chrome: A How To
Alright, this was way easier than I thought it was going to be. You do have to copy and paste a couple of commands into your Terminal and turn on Developer mode in your Chrome extensions, but that is really all that there is to it. I’m just writing this …
What I'm Learning: A bunch of new programming resources for kids to start their CS Journey.
Hat Tip to Jessica Raleigh for this one. While I did know most of these apps, it is nice to have them all collected in one spot. I also didn’t know Waterbear, so I got to check it out! 10 Tools To Teach Kids The Basics Of Programming Waterbear is …
What I'm Using: exercism.io
I love the idea of learning to code in context. Although there is definitely a steep learning curve for getting it up and running, I think this project has huge potential. Exercism Better code through conversations. Thousands of conversations are happening on exercism. Here’s one of them. You start with …
What I'm Using: An Insanely Great Way to Copy Youtube Playlists from someone else's account to your own
I have been looking for ways of doing this for a very long time. This tool is so incredibly easy to use, and I am glad that it exists. copy youtube playlists
The power of Better.
There is a lot of juice in transformational change. Everyone is looking for it, coveting it above all other types of change. But, I wonder if there needs to be a defense of incremental change. I wonder if we need to think about how “better” is something really amazing. The …
Project Roundtable: The All-Day Q & A
This is the All-Day Roundtable to support any and all teachers that are looking to use Webcams, microphones, Swivls, iPads, Chromebooks and any other device that helps teachers to collaborate with one another throughout this school year. Please come and ask/answer questions. Please come and share your own educational excitement.
What I'm Using: GifDeck to make Gifs out of Slideshare Presentations
I love Gifs. I love great Slidedecks. Go GifDeck! GifDeck Use GIF in your emails to make them more interesting and increase engagement. Many email clients give GIF an auto play functionality. Gmail supports it as inline playable format.