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2023-07-19Twenty-Five Years and Counting
2023-07-14Performance Review Counterexamples
2022-12-29The Fourth Tradition
2022-08-07The Sisyphus Test
2021-06-30That Seems Simple to Me
2021-02-20Asteroids and Dinosaurs
2020-07-09Thoughts from a Not-So-Influential Educator
2020-01-07Goodbye, Mum
2019-07-27Doing Good and Getting Paid
2019-06-13Martha's Rules
2019-05-04In the Classroom
2019-04-24Ten Quick Tips for Reviewing Lessons
2019-04-20Leading Questions for Creating a Learning Commons
2019-04-15An Exchange with DataCamp
2019-02-04Classifying Data
2019-01-30Why I Teach (Revisited)
2018-12-02OER Landmines
2018-11-24Afraid of Change
2018-11-03Abstraction and Comprehension
2018-08-13Authoring
2018-05-11Meetings
2018-05-06Cigarettes and Shopify
2018-03-20Goodbye, Jeff
2018-03-16Seven Ways to Think Like a Programmer
2017-12-17Consider the Bicycle
2015-12-06Just Keep Swimming
2015-11-09Daddy, Why Don't You Ever Laugh?
2015-09-22Goodbye, Dad
2015-06-11Why We Can't Have Nice Things
2014-03-14Is Learning at Scale Just Another Name for Ubiquitous Surveillance in the Classroom?
2013-02-11Correctness Isn't Compelling
2012-10-23Twenty Percent
2012-01-21We Have Nothing To Give Them

Anecdotes

2024-12-12Long Evenings
2024-11-07Stained Glass
2024-09-23A Bag of Hippos
2024-05-18Pirates
2024-04-19Because of You
2024-03-31A Bus Ticket
2024-01-27Caught Stealing
2024-01-20The Moon and Tears
2024-01-14Is There a Word for That?
2024-01-14Angry for Myself
2023-12-31Tattoos
2023-12-11Build Robots When You Can
2023-10-21Heaven and Dirty Dishes
2023-07-30Who Won?
2023-07-29A Hike on the Isle of Skye
2023-07-27I Don't Think It's Going to Be Better
2023-07-16A Book and a Typewriter
2023-06-12Nice Shirt
2023-06-07A Slow-Motion Garden
2023-05-27Can I Fix Your Stairs?
2023-05-10Windchimes
2023-04-25The Pergola