I’m pleased to be a presenter at the 2026 Educators Rising National Conference in Portland. I’m leading a breakout session on gamification and using the psychology of game design in instruction. I hope to have both teacher leaders and students in my…
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…
As a course designer for the Canvas LMS, I want to be able to make videos of presentations I’ve created and post them into the course. I primarily use two tools to do this: Quicktime Player (Mac) and Screencast Pro from Telestream.…
I recently was experiencing some issues around file sharing on MacOS (Big Sur on one end, Monterrey on the other) that had me mucking about in the Sharing pane of System Preferences. When I connected to the Monterrey machine remotely through SMB…
Topics Mail Merge Forms and Templates Recording Macros Using Footnotes and Endnotes Creating Bookmarks Tracking Changes and Comments Envelopes & Labels Creating a Table of Contents Mail Merge Mail merge is a function whereby you create a template of communication, such as…
I am a detail oriented person. I recently read a colleague’s dissertation and before I could get to the details in the writing, all I could see where inconsistencies in the use of spaces and punctuation. For sure, it was a draft…
