I’ve been taking pictures now for around 15 years. I start the clock around the time my dad brought a DSLR to our house and decide to leave it for me to use. It was a Canon Rebel XT and I still have it. This is the camera that made me realize I could take […]
Category: Reflections
Bending it in the browser
I was listening to the Shop Talk Show episode on patching the web. They mentioned removing the trending tweets sidebar and it reminded me to do that. I had to look up aria label selectors in CSS, but applying this bit of CSS using Stylebot removes it nicely. Digital fluency/Anti-app rambling I couldn’t do that […]
What makes technology academic?
In my current position at Middlebury, I’m more involved in software purchasing and worrying about how things play out across the institution than I have been in a number of years. Back in my HCPS days, I did a lot of this. At VCU, not so much. Turns out things haven’t changed a ton. Naturally, […]
Ed Tech Boxes
Know the surest way to make people dislike you? Do a close-reading of something they wrote without being asked. Then exaggerate their statement a bit so you can make a point you wanted to make. I’m going to do that with Martin’s quote below and then Jim’s blog post title. But maybe admitting all that […]
In spite of
Audrey’s post explaining why she’s stepping away from ed-tech for good was something that resonated with me in a few different ways. I’ve also been a fan of Desmos (the tool) and Dan Meyer (the person) for a long time. That’s going back many years (2009 easily). But I separate the tool and the person […]
DoOO Data Considerations
This is for the Domain of One’s Own Roadshow workshop/conference thing. Reclaim stuff is always fun and I should have gotten this down earlier but I didn’t so I’m just trying to get down some ideas on assessment and data. I read it now and I’m kind of bored myself but overthinking the value of […]
More Looking at a Domain of One’s Own – cPanel
So I’m still getting settled at the new job. It leads to ebbs and flows in energy. I opted to lay off the “long goodbye” posts for a while as they were making me a bit depressed. It was getting rough to look back at selected highlights made over 7 or 8 years while I […]
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Domain of One’s Own – Initial MiddCreate Conversation
Yesterday we had our first group meeting revisiting where we wanted MiddCreate to go. That’s one of my main projects so I was facilitating the meeting. It was a bit odd to start a big project like this over Zoom but I think it went ok. I set up a Google Doc as a way […]
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Looking at a Domain of One’s Own
Middlebury has a Domain of One’s Own initiative. We only dabbled in it a bit at VCU with one of Andrew’s web design courses. I’ve seen bits and pieces and worked with people on various aspects of this over the years but I haven’t paid attention in the same way I do when I’m actually […]
VCU: The Long Goodbye (Biology)
I’m going to put biology, environmental sciences, and some other things associated with biology in my head in this post. This does not reflect the political realities of VCU where it’s a very big deal that these things are not in biology. I’m not going to get to nearly all of these and I don’t […]