During the summers, we maintain “summer enrichment” activities for our daughters. With schooling forced online in March 2020, we’ve done all we can to simply…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Education
Teaching and learning.
We’re officially a homeschooling household. We notified the school district, in writing and via email, and we enrolled in a homeschooling curriculum. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Schools, from K12 to universities, rushed online after March 13, 2020. Sadly, the COVID-19 coronavirus and poor online education pedagogy and design went hand-in-hand thanks…
As the co-editor of Type Matters, along with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, I argue that font designs are semiotic communication. Typefaces accrue meaning through their historical uses…
Testing designs, testing software, testing documents. We need to teach students that testing is part of all product development. Instead, we focus on details that…
The university at which I’m teaching uses the D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). The Brightspace LMS is a cloud-based, managed service. This means…
Yes, I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, traveling with my children from Western PA to the California Coast. While we were in California,…
If you need to transcribe audio or caption video, take a look at Descript now. Some days, my words are jumbled and speaking well is…
Limiting the screen time we allow our two children is a difficult task. The preschool and kindergarten use iPads extensively, as both teaching tools and…
The following timeline of typography milestones is part of the digital companion materials to Type Matters: The Rhetoricity of Letterforms published by Parlor Press.