Category: Personal Blog

  • Empowering Icons: Female Characters in Comics

    Peggy Carter: Captain Carter’s Trailblazing Journey Through Time In the dynamic world of comic books, a diverse array of female characters emerges as powerful role models, offering high school students nuanced narratives that extend beyond traditional stereotypes. These characters navigate challenges, embody resilience, and stand as beacons of empowerment. Exploring their stories in the classroom…

  • IFTTT: How I Use It

    If This Then That is a program with pre-built tasks that can be linked together for repetitive tasks you complete. I use it largely as a way to automate parts of my social media feeds and to help promote my personal Redbubble page. How to get started If you use the free version of the…

  • Adobe Express: Creating Dual Layered Word List

    The main focus of this video is to show how to create a two layer text image that has a recolored lower layer using the image masking tool. This process is simple but does require you to have some experience understanding the image blending tool and knowing what you would like the word list to…

  • 2023 Recommendations

    I know sometimes it’s hard to figure out what to buy and put together a list for classroom device purchases. That being said, I have purchased for myself or my classroom all the items on this list and recommend them. Each has a brief description next to it and some of the affiliate links Soundcore…

  • TDIH: Richard II was born

    I was watching “The Supremes” episode of West Wing recently and remembered how much I love this quote. This episode actually has two Shakespeare references. The other is a line from Julius Caesar that is quoted by a Senator in reference to his nephew. The “lean and hungry” line is one of my favorites from Shakespeare but is vastly…

  • ReBlog Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day!

    St. Stephen’s Day was introduced to me and my wife on our Honeymoon. Tradition has it, that people in Ireland give gifts of food and drink to orphanages the day after Christmas. To receive the gifts, the children must dress up. In other countries, Dec. 26 has developed into a holiday to exchange gifts with co-workers and…