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What I’m Learning from Learning French
So there are people way more equipped than me to talk about How To Support Learning. But following up on my post from a couple weeks ago about what makes self-directed online learning difficult, I wanted to think about how to ease some of the issues I was talking about. The two things that came…
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Learning to Learn; or, Online Barriers for Total Beginners
Coming off of Reclaim Open, one of the things I’m thinking about is online resources for self-teaching beginners. When we were interviewing people for the documentary, we asked people what they were glad the internet had now, in the present, that it hadn’t had in the past. And a lot of people — not everyone,…
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Emailcraft the Pilot Way
So to start — this isn’t a formula. Or, the blog post might seem like a formula, or a checklist or something like that, but really what it’s meant to be is a distillation of a lot of things that I don’t actively think about when I write emails, turned into something explainable. So maybe…
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Monster of the Week in 2022 & 2023
I did a lot in 2022, but one thing I’m pretty proud of was dipping my toes into GMing an actual campaign for the tabletop RPG Monster of the Week. MOTW is a Powered by the Apocalypse game that takes its inspiration from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, The Dresden Files, The X-Files, and other…
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Reconnecting with Zotero and Finding The Truth
In anticipation of next week’s Reclaim book club, which is starting on December 01 and being hosted by the lovely Amanda Schmidt, I’ve reinstalled Zotero. Zotero, if you’re not familiar, is a tool for collecting articles, web pages, and anything else you may want to save or cite down the road — designed for scholarship,…
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So I Had Some Commitment Issues…
Revisiting Git & GitHub So as luck would have it, a couple of things have dovetailed in my work recently. In my last blog post, I talked about the experiments I’ve been doing with HTML & CSS, building site files directly instead of using WordPress or another application. Ideally I’d like to learn more about…
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The Finger-painting Approach
In the midst of learning about containers and PHP (no blogging on that yet) and daydreaming about how to put together my own PHP/JavaScript site/application/what-have-you that’s a tool exactly tailored to what I need, I decided to go back to basics: HTML, CSS, and nothing else. I’ve messed around with HTML and CSS before, but…
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Containers Workshop Week 1: Hello, World!
Just using this space quickly to type up some thoughts about Week 1 of the containers workshop we hosted in July. For a variety of reasons I’m only now getting the opportunity to work through the exercises, one week at a time, so here we go. Week 1 covered an introduction to containers: what they…
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