Lately I’ve been writing a bit more on my Chapman blog than here. Here are a few recent posts:
Lately I’ve been writing a bit more on my Chapman blog than here. Here are a few recent posts:
This morning I did my regular WordPress maintenance tasks: upgrading to the latest stable release, updating plugins, clearing out spam comments, etc. And as I did so I looked at…
I am a teacher, and am happiest when I am grappling with how to share what I know and what I think with others. Thus, I am fortunate that I…
In my workshop at Digital Pedagogy today, we discussed how and why someone might want to create a twitter bot. The uses of such bots can vary widely–they can be…
Back when I was a student, I hated the first day of classes (aka Read the Syllabus Day). One semester I rather snarkily informed each of my professors how much…
Last week we did a fairly strenuous canoe paddle, more than 60km, in a remote northern area of British Columbia. The paddling wasn’t so daunting (3-4 hours per day of…
This is another post in the series about MyYearinIT. Not too long ago I found myself in a “Strategic IT” meeting we were discussing where we each sit on the…
This is another post in the series about MyYearinIT. Because of my IT management role, I recently had the opportunity to complete a leadership profile, and this was my result:…
Because I do like me some book-ish poetry… Untitled by Elizabeth Bishop Close close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, close as two pages in…
I sometimes make small bargains with myself to keep focused on the things that are important to me (and to reign in my time-wasters). One such bargain is that I…
From Mary Oliver: “We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I…
I’m heading into the home stretch of my year in IT, and am enjoying a bit of extra attention from my colleagues as a result: