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,…
Poet Ponders the Digital
C. S. Wyatt Posts
Working with two (or more) external monitors with an Apple computer seems to require a daily display arrangement dance. With my MacBook Pro to my…
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…
Workbook publishers, you have made my life difficult as a homeschooling parent. We purchase perforated workbooks so we can remove pages and give them one…
Having a great keyboard matters more to me than debates about operating systems or computer brands. I can use Windows, Linux, or macOS and get…
We made it to day 90, the half-way point for the 180-day standard curriculum maps. Following the Texas standards and Common Core, which mostly overlap,…
Watching our daughters type for their virtual learning exercises pains me. Our daughters need to learn to type, properly. After two or three years of…
Tablets are computers, but can they replace more traditional notebook systems? I’ve been using a new iPad Air for two months and I have to…
Homeschooling requires a lot of energy. Unfortunately, I’m exhausted. Working as a college instructor and on other projects, along with homeschooling both daughters, leaves me…