Microsoft Excel is one of my favorite applications. Long ago, it was Quattro Pro that displaced Lotus 1-2-3 in my heart, but Excel long ago rose…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Teaching
Pedagogy and general teaching with (or without) modern technology.
A colleague recently suggested my wife and I should have no computing screen time limitations for our daughters. Should parents set screen time limits for…
It’s far more than an eight-hour day. It’s more than a five-day work week. “It” is trying to keep our two daughters on track academically. Because…
This blog often critiques schools and universities for rushing to adopt technologies without prioritizing learning. No technology replaces the value of a skilled teacher selecting…
We are preparing for the 2021-22 school year, during which we will be homeschooling yet again. Pessimists are rarely disappointed. I’m a cynical pessimist with…
Homeschooling is nearing its 2020-21 end, thankfully. Some materials we have used were good and some were merely the best we could locate. The good…
In higher education, online programs are chasing QM Certification. What does that mean? Quality Matters is a lot of things: a non-profit, a methodology, a rubric.…
After 120 days of officially homeschooling for 2020-21, I realized we needed to upgrade our record keeping. Depending on state laws and local public schools,…
Learning Management System (LMS) design must address the needs of three (or more) user audiences, including: teachers, students, administrators, and sometimes guardians. Blackboard dominates the…
Blackboard Learn Ultra is not Blackboard, at least not the familiar Blackboard Learning Management System I’ve used for many years. Though the changes might seem…