Microsoft PowerPoint was first released in 1987 (Wikipedia, 2019a). The original slide deck software, PowerPoint revolutionized presentations everywhere, freeing us from the trials and tribulations of drawing, or even worse, photocopying, onto transparencies. As a testament to their significance in communication, the form and features of myriad slide deck programs remain similar to this day. […]
Have you ever gone away for the weekend and realized you owed some feedback to a student while you were gone? I am talking about the type of feedback that has to happen before Monday and not by 11 pm on Sunday night either. This just happened to me and thankfully the student submitted his […]
I have had some fun this week using an Apple program called Preview. Aptly named, this is the program that runs if you double click on a file to look at it. There is a little blue pen tip icon under the file title that is available with most file types. When you hover over […]
Google Apps for Education, or #GAFE as they are known on Twitter, include very powerful tools to help educators help themselves get faster at algorithmic tasks. This frees us up to spend more time focusing on heuristic tasks, the ones that require adaptive, responsive decision making in the face of ever changing conditions. At least […]