Most of us work from one deadline to the next, in an endless race to check tasks off our to‐do lists and stay ahead of everything left to do. Whatever your work is, digital technology means that you can also be saving little bits of the work you’re doing anyway and using them in interesting side pro...
Hemingway is a markdown editor that coaches you to write more clearly, helping you to emulate Ernest Hemingway’s trademark sparse, journalistic style. Though I don’t use it as my main markdown editor, I’ve been thinking about ways it can be useful in a variety of learning tasks.
Once writin...
Instructure Canvas is the new hotness in the LMS market, but for many it remains out of reach. For many schools who need an LMS on a shoestring budget, their best option is to contract for an open source Moodle install from a 3rd party hosting company. This is a common service available from many...
I’ve been using self‐hosted Wordpress for 6 years now, and I’ve experimented with several site plugins to add different features to my sites. This is a short list of the plugins and themes I keep coming back to year after year.
Here on T...
As we look at traditional education and try and explain how it got this way, one topic is so taboo that it rarely gets discussed. as much as we love and value our students, they can be a lit...
You may know that most websites collect some data about your browsing habits when you visit the site. Some of these cookies are pretty benign, giving the site owners basic statistics they can use to customize content.
I use Wordpress JetPack and Google Analytics on TedCurran.net so I can und...
One of the thrilling features of the Iron Man movies is the idea that Tony Stark can step into a mechanized robot suit and control it as if he were just moving his body naturally. The suit is expertly designed to understand his movements in real time and seamlessly amplify them to give him superhuma...
Using Markdown In WordPress http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/using-markdown-in-wordpress
You know that moment when the room is quiet and everyone is calmly focused on a speaker– and then someone’s annoying ringtone goes off right in the middle, shattering the silence and attracting unwanted attention?
Don’t be that doofus.
I created a couple of IFTTT recipes to save the sanity of...