A Shortcut for Creating Random Groups October 10, 2023 teaching & shortcuts Just before the academic year began in late August, I found myself looking through the Shortcuts application to see whether I had any shortcuts I Data Design and Shortcuts September 28, 2022 shortcuts & data analysis One of my projects over summer was to learn Shortcuts. I’d been hearing about Shortcuts ever since Apple first released it for iOS in 2018; a lot of Duplicating Files and Folders With Shortcuts August 30, 2022 shortcuts & teaching Last week, I wrote about Python scripts for duplicating files and folders. Those scripts work well. However, not everyone is comfortable working Python Scripts for Duplicating Files and Folders August 23, 2022 python & teaching Earlier this summer, I spent some time creating Python scripts to copy files and folders. Why do that? For me, the most common use case for copying A Shortcut for Randomly Calling on Students July 19, 2022 teaching & shortcuts Calling on students in class is, perhaps surprisingly, one of the things I find challenging. I’ve never been wholly comfortable cold-calling on The Bento Method With Things and Obisidian May 25, 2022 how-to A while back I listened to Episode 151 of the Focused podcast. David and Mike had Francesco D’Alessio on, and they discussed Francesco’s new iOS Importing a WordPress Xml File January 15, 2022 how-to This is a script I wrote to accompany a short video I created for users of our campus’ WordPress installation, which I set up and managed until it WordPress Export January 15, 2022 how-to This is a script I wrote to accompany a short video I created for users of our campus’ WordPress installation, which I set up and managed until it Some Thoughts on Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work! September 1, 2021 reading I recently read Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work!. Two passages in particular stood out for me: “…if you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader Adding Google Fonts to a Ghost Theme September 1, 2021 how-to If you’ve found a theme you like for your Ghost site, but you want to change the typography to better suit your branding or personal style, you can A Course Planning Template April 28, 2021 teaching I’ve been experimenting with Notion on and off for quite a while, and during the Fall 2020 semester I began exploring how I might use it for course An Unexpected Use for a Raspberry Pi April 19, 2021 Several months ago, I purchased a Raspberry Pi. I had three principal uses for it. I wanted to use it as a Plex server. I was also interested in a One Year Ago… March 11, 2021 What a difference a year makes. In mid-February last year, I expressed some doubt to a colleague about my campus’s decision to recall our students Sabbatical Diary: Thinking About Grades March 8, 2021 teaching This blog post originally appeared on the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on October 4, 2012. This semester, I’m in an Paperless Handwritten Feedback March 8, 2021 how-to & teaching This is a script I wrote to accompany a short video I created for my colleagues a couple of years ago. The video is available on YouTube: I’d like Filenames and LaTeX and Pandoc, Oh My! March 8, 2021 how-to This blog post originally appeared on the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on November 17, 2016. Sometimes it happens: someone Collecting Student Work With Google Forms March 8, 2021 how-to & teaching This blog post originally appeared on the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on January 10, 2017. A good number of us here at