Category: Business

What About Trust?

I love podcasts. They're like reading, but without all of the work. Podcasts Listening to podcasts like StartUp, The Fizzle Show, Serial, The Pitch, and The James Altucher Show has completely transformed the way I look at housework, exercise, and traffic. I don't...

The Internet’s Own Boy

This documentary is fascinatingly interesting, heartbreaking, and amazingly well done. The Internet's Own Boy Brief Review The Internet's Own Boy portrays the incredible life and tragic death of Aaron Swartz who is best known for founding Reddit.com and for his...

Sell Your By-Products

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...

Google Font Pairings

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. I do...

WordPress with Code Anywhere

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...

Wiki Spaces

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 as 1st grade. The...

SQL and PowerSchool

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) provide you with some...

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