I’m looking at creating k12 teaching portfolios aligned to Vermont’s teaching standards. On the plus side, I made a similar portfolio when I did my ITMA program at Virginia Tech.1 As someone who hired a lot of teachers in VA once upon a time I’ve also looked at hundreds of teacher portfolios. And, finally, over […]
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When I was teaching 6th grade history back in the very early 2000s1 I made this image to make some connection between George Washington’s strength and some SOL fact. It was silly. It’s just a thing to help it stick in their minds, make a boring fact visual, and maybe make a kid laugh.2 At […]
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To see how it’d go, I used Claude Code to see if I could make a Lightroom Classic plugin to auto-tag photos with visible jersey numbers using the Google Gemini API. Adobe uses Lua as a scripting language. It did end up working but it took quite a while and, in general, I feel mostly […]
I know. More AI stuff. I am sorry. The goal is to be able to create scenarios in a target language that are in a particular environment, associated with a particular task/goal, and focused on particular vocabulary. Right now, the goal is just the opportunity to practice writing the target language with some degree of […]
This is an interesting example to me for a variety for a variety of reasons. One of them being that I don’t really know enough about graph theory to evaluate the responses. That’s kind of fundamental, but I made the effort anyway. I did learn some as I went on and it does also reinforce […]
Alan has been on top of some things happening with pinboard.in. It seems that public links to tags, searches, etc. have been shut off due to hackers attacking those urls. That’s been the social bookmarking site of choice for a number of people in my internet circles. I’m not super-social but it is important to […]
I have long meant to get around to making a countdown timer page. It’s a handy thing to have for workshops and for workouts or pomadoro/productivity. There have been enough options out there that kept me from doing it. This pomadoro one is actually really nice. I could also link to a point in the […]
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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 […]
I was curious how well the AI would do at creating sentences that were the opposite of what I wrote. I wanted full opposite-ness, as much oppositeness as I could get. If I type in “The black cat sat.” I’d want something like “A white dog stood.” With my admittedly minimal effort, I got minimal […]
. . . at least some of the time. At a recent basketball game for one of my children, a fellow parent whom I have spoken to a number of times over the years said “Hey, I saw one of your pictures in a presentation I was watching yesterday.”1 He described one of the images […]