In pandemic times, out of the ordinary things happen. Around the home front last week, as a birthday thing, the family indulged me in watching a few favorite movies I watched repeatedly as a kid on… | Continue reading
I can hear a dated 1960s beat from the back of my brain… something to rev up the blog again. Yet different lyrics? [crayon-5ea74425607a4669568973/] Yes, as if there’s anything else to b… | Continue reading
Over the last 8 months I’ve been tinkering on a WordPress site made for my wife Cori’s high school program. It’s a place for students most at risk of not graduating across three l… | Continue reading
Okay. We have pivoted, home quarantined, stocked up pantries, filled closets with TP, stretched Wifi limits, set up workspaces in our living spaces. We’re going from reducing screentime to it… | Continue reading
I so loved the OER20 Conference #ThisIsMe activity- they encouraged participants in this online conference (I writer this as if there are any other kinds now) to tweet and photo of their participat… | Continue reading
Here’s a thirteen year arc or maybe a circle or maybe life is just a long looping GIF. One of the old slides says “Start with the #*@% Demo!” so here goes my video prepared as an … | Continue reading
In this unprecedented overuse of the phrase “unprecedented times” what is more appropriate, and a flavor change of all day Zoom sessions, than a conference run completely over Twitter? … | Continue reading
While educators assemble resource lists, suggestions, Zoom How To lessons, I’m hoping here to provide some small things one might try to do online besides “moving courses.” This i… | Continue reading
I can’t say I’ve ever aimed to “put courses online.” The focus of my un-illustrious edtech career has been helping people find creative ways to leverage technology, media, p… | Continue reading
It happens so often and ends up being blogged that I’ve tagged this phenomenon freetousewonders. I open a new browser tab in Chrome and the Library Congress Free to Use Extension knocks on my… | Continue reading
There’s some textbook theory of design as a thing where some entity identifies a need, some objectives, stuff is scoped, and handed in a neat handy packet to a developer. I had that happen. S… | Continue reading
Monday I saw the #OEWeek tagged tweets and had some wondering about what I might contribute for Open Education Week. So I dusted off and cleaned up an oldie- my collection of Amazing Stories of Ser… | Continue reading
Following up from last month (nobody is tracking me) for this 13th year of daily photos I am trying to do my cleanup and review each month, thus saving me hours of labor in December. Yeah right. He… | Continue reading
I’ve known of some problems with one of my WordPress themes for a while but pushed it aside. WP-Dimension is one of my favorite “Calling Card” WordPress themes. maybe if it was th… | Continue reading
Y’all may be fine with dead links and broken sites, but if they belong to me, I am bothered. I was dusting off some portfolio items, and noticed one small, tiny project, maybe not even used a… | Continue reading
There you go, try guess the nature of this blog post from a word heavy vague title. Better yet, just go first and try the thing I will be ‘splaining right here. Well, are you back? Did anythi… | Continue reading
Academic conferences are getting some scrutiny about environmental impact of travel. Some. While a valid concern, I think it’s the a misplaced one. Nor is it one of face to face versus online… | Continue reading
I’m one month in to my 13th year of a daily photography practice/compulsion. While perfect attendance is not the goal (only achieved in 2015 and 2016) there usually looms a major year end tas… | Continue reading
The math on my parent’s anniversary was always easy since they were married in 1950– on February 5, you just needed to subtract 50. Today would have been a party for their 70th. Alas, n… | Continue reading
I’m gonna need a bigger tool. And I have been dragging my heels for a while, despite warnings from being registered on Have I Been pwned? (which I think now also sends warnings via Firefox). … | Continue reading
Maybe it’s not much news to have a media uploader used in a WordPress site… but what if I said you can do that on a site without needing an account or a trip to the ugly dashboard? That… | Continue reading
I forgot what I was looking for in my flickr photos, but the browser tab has been open to this one for a while. A Book About Me flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY) licen… | Continue reading
The internet is big enough I can nearly always find any answer when my software does not do what I want it to do. I know video guru Andy Rush my snicker but I use Apple’s iMovie for all my vi… | Continue reading
Each week I buy a package of cheap storebrand sugar cookies, I call them my “Horrible Cheap Cookies.” I eat 2 or 3 when my blood sugar dips. My wife laughs at me, but I kind of like tho… | Continue reading
It’s back. It’s dark, reflective, you are looking into it. It looks “off”. CCO image from Pikrepo But it’s not. It’s looking at you. Is it? This is the 2020 iter… | Continue reading
Ever since I did some fiddling to make the SPLOTbox WordPress theme be a way to collaboratively create podcasts, I’ve had another dream tapping away. I could hear it. Tap. Tap. Tap. I wondere… | Continue reading
There’s no lack of boastful articles about the benefits of open source software; I have not come here to bury them (or praise). They can do wonders and sometimes they just can burn your energ… | Continue reading
My experiences with the bottom feeding world of catfishing has wiggled and slithered from weird to worse. Last week a message came to my flickr mail from someone claiming to be a producer of a nati… | Continue reading
There’s alway room for another Three Letter Acronym. So did I un-intentionally build an LXP? Tannis Morgan first suggested so in twitter and even more in a recent blog post. But wait a minute… | Continue reading
My little big sister Harriet always has display the real artist talent in the family. She’s done it again. A surprise package in the mail came with a new watercolor, this of the llamas that l… | Continue reading
Recently Dean Shareski, long time internet colleague, friend, and since I moved to near Moose Jaw, neighbor, blogged that I Don’t Think I’m an EdTech Guy Anymore. Scanning the comments on his post … | Continue reading
Seven days into a new year and nary a SPLOT related blog post… what’s going on around here? Thar be rabbit holing in the code warren. I’ve still got a big surprise to add to SPLOT… | Continue reading
I cannot give enough thanks for the Internet Archive WayBack Machine. I should give money, but instead I offer a blog post. And that’s a thing when I am looking to use or refer to an old post… | Continue reading
“Who ya gonna call?” “CODEBUSTERS” No. But the metaphor of Ghostbusters crossing the streams was inversely appropriate to a little bit of code action over the holidays (of w… | Continue reading
Show me the exact line between habit and obsession. I might take a photo of it. Since 2008 I have attempted, though not 100% succeeded, at taking photographs every day, posting my favorite to flick… | Continue reading
I see your pie charts and lists of almost 100 books read this year, Martin Weller. And it is impressive. My summary will not take a spreadsheet, as I just today finished one book for 2019, this one… | Continue reading
To every new browser tab opened, is a window to the past, thanks to the Free to Use Browser Extension from the Library of Congress. What it means is that every new tab opened in Chrome comes a publ… | Continue reading
There’s something to be said for making your own tech tools; you certainly know quickly if something goes awry (though you cannot complain much about the tool provider). Something I made firs… | Continue reading
As always, getting notice of a photo added to Flickr Explore is a wonderful surprise, as it is often unanticipated. It’s been a while (well not that long, since early August) that it happened… | Continue reading
Yes, it’s that year end time of inevitable reflections, of dusting off the blog, vows to blog, etc. There’s not de-dusting or vow-making needed here, I can tell in one URL that this blo… | Continue reading
I’ve collected more than enough examples of Web Tools Biting the Dust but it stings more when the dust biting is by organization that believes that the internet “is a global public reso… | Continue reading
Get ready for some arcane bits about figuring out web addresses. It’s hardly commentary on anything pro quo, more just trying to explain my ways. This happened more than a few times with last… | Continue reading
Can you believe it? This is another SPLOT blog post. Why? I’m trying to keep up with myself. The SPLOTbox has turned into a WordPress theme that can be used for sites where uses contribute it… | Continue reading
BBFWLLT is a family joke/story. When my Mom asked what I wanted for a gift (singular), my little kid brain produced a clever strategy to get more out of the deal. I would ask for a “Big Box F… | Continue reading
Widgets and little add ons are great for your web site. But know that when they depend on connecting to an outside server, and no one answers… well your site might be toast. Being an organiza… | Continue reading
The Form/Sheet architecture is more dynamic than you may think, once you crack open the lid on Google Scripts. I’ve long seen the creative things Martin Hawksey and Tom Woodward (and plenty o… | Continue reading
Building collections of resources is among the oldest things to build on the web (and definitely before that). Heck, I made a “Bag of URLs” for this that ran for like 10 years. My first… | Continue reading
A classy and inspiring example how to be someone of high reputation yet very down to earth in social media… It might be 10 years ago that I was fortunate to take a photography workshop co-lea… | Continue reading