Personal Open Classroom Challenge I have been intrigued by an open classroom model for a few years now in order to expose my students’ work to a wider community. I’m probably going to make the […]
Save your Files in Dropbox for Revision Control
Dropbox for Scratch Files I save my scratch code for showing to students in Dropbox for various reasons but mainly so I can get to the code from any computer I happen to be using […]
Creating Videos for Flipping Your Classes
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcq9Lzbr0w8] As part of my experiment in flipping my classrooms, I searched for options for producing videos. My university campus provides support to create fully produced videos but I wanted something lightweight that I […]
Make Office Hours Attractive to Students
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aMcXBsLQLY&w=140&h=105] Office Hours I used to set my office hours and really not be concerned about promoting them beyond the obligatory publishing the available hours in my course syllabus. The video here (courtesy of […]
Standup Workstations update
Update on my Standup Workstation So I posted back in July about my standup workstation. I had just started using this setup and wanted to post about it. That was two months ago so I […]
Standing Desks
A couple weeks back I posted on Google+: “If this is good enough for +Kevin Michaluk then I can definitely see using this at work” (link to post here). I figured instead of waiting around for my […]
Personal Password Security with LastPass
Edit (March 3, 2021): I no longer recommend LastPass after their announcement in February 16, 2021. My current recommendation for most users is Bitwarden. My videos about that decision are on my YouTube channel in […]
Moodle for my Courses Please
I’ve been using Moodle as my preferred Learning Management System (LMS) since 2003, so I have been using it since version 1. Many people have asked why I use Moodle and not one of the […]