Isotope · Filter & sort magical layouts Filterizr | Create responsive galleries Hanover book nook creator’s ‘censored’ Girl Scout Gold Award“I would like to let you, the Board of Supervisors know, that you have bestowed upon me the greatest honor you could. Greater than that of any proclamation, in your censorship of my Gold Award,” […]
A long time since the last photo post
It’s tiny turtle season. Note the size of my two fingers. This guy was little. […]
Canvas data and academic integrity
Another entry in my I-guess-other-people-might-have-to-write-something-like-this series of posts . . . The following is my initial attempt to contextualize Canvas data should it be requested in academic integrity investigations. This is my own opinion and doesn’t represent any place I might or might not work.<footnote>See how vague that sentence is? That means it’s basically a […]
Necessary FUD?
I wrote the following document to try to pretty aggressively discourage instructors from using all the free/freemium products out there. It falls pretty heavily on the FUD side of things. I have mixed feelings about writing it. I think it does paint an accurate picture of the environment and of just how hard it is […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-04-14
t.30=Ovipares et Serpens t.1 (1788) – Histoire naturelle, ge?ne?rale et particulie?re – Biodiversity Heritage Library AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?Some are surprised when they discover I don’t think blockchains are useless, either. Like so many technologies, blockchains are designed to prioritize a few specific characteristics (coordination among parties who don’t trust one […]
Extracting data using regexextract in Google Sheets
One of our tools has usage data that ends up being three items on one line. Each line of data is something like this 1. email@middlebury.edu 123. The first number doesn’t matter. I want the email address and the last number (which indicates usage hours). In the old days, I’d have rigged something together using […]
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Workshops, speakers, energy, and flow
Way back in the dawn of time (2009), I was more tightly integrated into a unit that was more focused on staff development writ large. We had experiences, trainings, and professional growth.I’ve thought about those three categories of offerings quite a bit since then. With some slight tweaks, I feel like they apply well to […]
On the Fly Data Validation Values in Google Script
I’m helping the School in France do some payment logging. We have five different activity types with different payment increment rules . . . so if you’re teaching a class you have a minimum of 90 mins, a minimum step of 30, and a max of 150 mins. For Tutoring it’s 15 minute minimum, 15 […]
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Three O’s for Software Mangement
In my continuing saga1 of trying to explain how managing software costs time and energy, I decided to use the letter 0. In a perfect world, I’d do an explainer video with muppets with 0 as the letter of the day. Onboarding Whether you are preparing to bring something on or bringing it on, that’s […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2024-03-31
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them • The RegisterSeveral big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI. Not only that but someone, having spotted this reoccurring hallucination, had turned that made-up dependency into a real one, which was subsequently downloaded and installed thousands of […]