During Tuesday night's episode of Two EdTech Guys Take Questions the topic of audio recording came up. That prompted me to go on a little bit of a tangent (as I'm prone to doing) about The Great Thanksgiving Listen hosted by StoryCorps. The Great Thanksgiving Listen hosted...
I meant to write about this a few days ago. TED-Ed recently published a new lesson that tackles an issue that most of us have dealt with at one time or another. That issue is procrastination. Why You Procrastinate Even When It Feels Bad is a...
A couple of nights ago Rushton Hurley and I resumed our Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions series. We were joined by a handful of fine folks and even more people were registered to join us. If you missed our live broadcast, you can now watch the...
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Nursing. Breastfeeding. Chestfeeding. Bodyfeeding. There are many terms for feeding human babies with human milk. Whatever you call it, if you are planning to return to work after parental leave and want to continue feeding your baby with your milk, you’re going to have to figure...
By the People is a crowd-sourcing project that enlists the help of the public to transcribe thousands of primary source documents that are housed by and have been scanned by the Library of Congress. Over the years there have been collections of documents from the American...
Geography Awareness Week is coming up in a couple of weeks. In preparation for my favorite academic week of the year, I've recorded an updated tutorial on how to make multimedia maps with Padlet. Padlet is one of the most versatile tools you can put in your...
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Books I finished reading (or rereading) in October 2022… Not Impossible, Mick Ebeling (memoir) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (sci fi) Centers of Gravity, Marko Kloos (sci fi) Murder Under Another Sun, Colin Alexander (sci fi) Croma Venture, Joel Shepherd (sci fi) Rando Splicer, Joel Shepherd (sci fi) Phaid the...
This coming Saturday night is the end of Daylight Saving Time for this year in North America. I'm excited to turn the clocks back one hour because it means the sunrise will be earlier in the day. As someone who gets up at 5am or...
