After a decade of using Windows as my primary operating system, I recently switched back to using a MacBook Air as my primary computer. Making the switch has meant re-learning a couple of little things. It has also meant installing some software that I always...
Good morning from Maine where the sun is shining as I sip my second cup of coffee of the day. Yes, at 5:07am I'm drinking my second cup. That's what happens when you have little kids and a puppy. Speaking of puppies, ours has his...
The Psychology Behind Irrational Decisions is the title of a TED-Ed lesson that I needed to rewatch this morning. The lesson focuses on the role of heuristics in our decision making processes. Of course, to understand the role of heuristics in making decisions students first...
Today, I will probably get nothing done because I have to spend hours getting the website DoMyPaper.club to stop stealing my work. I've sent multiple DMCA notices to Namecheap which hosts the site. Namecheap only responds when I call them out on Twitter. Google's DMCA takedown...
Every year we plant a small vegetable garden in our backyard. Some years it does better than others. There was a year when it seemed like we were picking seven cucumbers a day. Last year the cucumbers didn't do well, but we had cherry tomatoes...
It has started to feel like summer is right around the corner here in Maine. Twice this week I've sat outside on our picnic table to do some course work. If you're interested in a professional development course that you can do while sitting outside...
Yesterday afternoon Ruston Hurley and I got together to record another installment of our Two EdTech Guys Take Questions series. In the episode we answered a question about alternative search engines, went on a bit of a tangent about image metadata, and shared a couple...
The first virtual event entirely focused on saving teachers TIME! And the best part? It’s totally FREE! The 40 Hour Teacher Workweek program is an online course first created in 2015 (with a total update in 2020), and we’ve now had tens of thousands of teachers...
The image that you see to above was used in a blog post that I wrote years ago. It recently surfaced again when I was looking for an old math resource (sadly, no longer available). The image above was made by blending two images together in...
Google Keep is the app that I probably use more than any other on my Pixel 5. It's an app that does everything I need to save notes, clip bookmarks, and set reminders for myself. It also has a lot of little "hidden" features that I...
