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  • iPadOS 13.4 impressions: Growing up means more to learn

    Now that I’ve had a week or more to play around with the cursor support in iPadOS 13.4, I’m ready to share some brief thoughts and impressions. There’s lots of coverage of this on all the tech websites, so I won’t retread old ground. What’s most interesting to me is what’s to come. The last…

  • Alternate delivery series: What I did to put my library session online (quickly)

  • A productive update: Impressions of the 2020 iPad Pro

    What better time to launch a new iPad than during a global pandemic. Am I right? In this article I provide my take on the new 2020 iPad Pro features, based on other hands-on reviews from around the web. While this is a fairly minor update, there are a few interesting tidbits to be found…

  • We need to rethink ‘smart tech’

    Last week, the ‘speaker’ manufacturer Sonos announced that it would be ending support for its legacy products. But, what does this mean for the other IoT devices in our homes, and how can we rethink ‘smart tech’? Full Article available on tech-bytes.net

  • Experimenting with class objectives

    Creating class objectives is arguably the most important part of my teaching process. If done correctly, I don’t really need to develop long, in-depth lesson plans (though I often do that anyways). Concrete class objectives allow for structure while also allowing for flexibility and the ability to respond to students on the fly. It really…