by Mike Macfadden | Jan 5, 2016
I first stumbled upon the notion of selling your by-products when I read Rework by the guys from Basecamp. Sell Your By-Products Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founders of Basecamp and authors of Rework, explain that in the early days at the Ford...
by Mike Macfadden | Nov 7, 2014
Comic Sans is probably used more heavily in the field of education than anywhere else. I consider this a problem. What’s wrong with Comic Sans? There are two camps – those who use Comic Sans regularly and those who disdain it. I fall into the latter camp....
by Mike Macfadden | Nov 2, 2014
It used to be a real pain to teach students WordPress development, but that is changing. Code Anywhere CodeAnywhere.com has completely changed the way I teach HTML and CSS. My students have access to a professional grade, syntax highlighting text editor that is...
by Mike Macfadden | Feb 24, 2014
In this post, I’d like to feature guest poster, and 1st grade teacher, Mrs. Gina Kupfer. Learning Object Mrs. Kupfer has created a fantastic “learning object” that demonstrates how a wiki can be used for instructional purposes with students as young...
by Mike Macfadden | Nov 14, 2013
As a “back-end” PowerSchool guy or gal, you may occasionally be asked to pull out data for which there is no pre-built report. In most cases this is possible, but it’s also usually really complicated. The purpose of this post is to (hopefully)...