I’m not a game designer. But, it wouldn’t be a stretch to call me a designer. Nor would it be a stretch to call teachers designers. They design experiences for others to have in order to learn. Teachers are Designers The staid…
Among the Apple productivity apps, I use Keynote every single day in my work. I develop a lot of graphics and many of those get used on webpages or in social media. Having pre-sized Keynote decks for each purpose (Linked In, or…
In working from home, I shuttle between two MacBooks in my home office setting. I use a Thunderbolt dock to connect external drives (both spinning and solid state) that I want access to on each computer. In addition, I have a USB-connected…
This past week I’ve been using the three major LLMs available to the general public: ChatGPT, Microsoft Co-Pilot, and Google Gemini. I’m not writing this to compare the three, but to report out how a few things I’ve learned and how I’ve…
Those who may be interested in the original Macintosh design (based upon Apple Lisa) may already know that it was a black and white machine. At the time, this was a significant drawback considering the Apple // and IBM PC computers had…
I was recently asked (again) for recommendations for photo management from folks who use Apple products (iPhone, Mac). I wanted to capture my thoughts on this publicly for others who may need advice. I’ve lived with Apple’s iPhoto (now Photos) app for…
When I was growing up through my teenage years, I created a large number of original works on piano. My method was to keep playing them and elaborate upon the ideas over time. I rarely wrote anything down, I kept it all…
Reflecting Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m a reflective person. And among all the things that have fascinated me about the field of education is how we learn, and to some extent, how this body of growing knowledge may contradict…
In 2023 I began some intensive research around the topic of gamification. This topic seemed to have its heyday in the literature (books, articles) nearly a decade ago, with a seeming golden year around 2015. “Gameful design attempts to design interactive systems…
I often feel nostalgic at the end of every year. Not for what I did this year, per se, but it’s just a natural time for me to think about a lot of things, some of which are themes that attract themselves…
