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Teaching to Learn
The potential of teaching to learn is intriguing. Those of us who teach are likely to find the claim that teaching involves learning to make sense. To explain something to someone else, particularly someone who might require clarification and examples, … Continue reading
Google vs iCloud Photos
If you are a Google Photos user, Google probably recently contacted you to explain that the free, all-you-can store version of Google Photos is going away on June 1. Additions to Google Photos after that date in excess of 15 … Continue reading
YiNote demonstration
YiNote is a Chrome extension allowing the annotation of online videos and the export of these annotations for storage and study. It is this capacity to export the notes taken with links to specific locations in the original video is … Continue reading
Podcast PD
The many inexpensive tools for media production have opened up opportunities for professional development. Gone are the days of having someone visit your school for a day or two, teach you something in a concentrated dose, and then leaving. I … Continue reading
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Everyone has a story
I haven’t thought about StoryCorps for years. StoryCorps is an effort to record, organize, and share the stories in all of us. Perhaps it might be thought of as a massive oral history or interview project. I remember becoming interested … Continue reading
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From hope to despair and back again
Whereas the printing press was the platform that gave birth to a society of readers, the Internet fashioned everyone as a publisher. This article from Scientific American offers what I would describe as a history of social media and disinformation. … Continue reading
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