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My 2026 Tech Stack

I'm one of those people who enjoys looking at what people's home screens look like on their phones or how...
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Trying Out PopClip After Watching a ScreencastsONLINE Tutorial About It

ScreencastsONLINE just continues to pay dividends for me in my Apple-device-filled life. In this case, it was a brand new...
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My Three Categories of Considerations for Using AI Tools

This is the third post in a series about AI tools, broadly speaking, and Claude Cowork, specifically. The first post...
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Why Naming Things Matters and Why TiHE Recommendations Are the Best

Many people have told me how much they get out of the recommendations segment of Teaching in Higher Ed each...
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AI, Privacy, and the Risks Worth Understanding Before You Dive In

This is the second post in a series about my use of AI agents, broadly speaking, and Claude Cowork, specifically....
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Permission to Go Slow

I'm beginning a series of posts about my experimentation with Claude Cowork, specifically, but also about the landscape of AI...
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Being Known: Conditions for Flourishing in Learning + Teaching

Dave sent me his notes from an evening event at our kids' school about college preparation. Mind you, neither of...
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SIFT + AI for Fact-Checking: What I Learned Testing a Claim About Nursing Pay

I used to be among the people who thought that privacy wasn't really much of a thing to be overly...
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Choosing Rhythms of Consistent, Predictable Joy

These are the drawings from the instructor. Look lower in the post for information about the...
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Return to Me: Teaching, AI, and the Longing to Connect

Late yesterday, I logged into LinkedIn and saw that I had been mentioned in a post about AI. This person...
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Digital Tools for Note Taking and PKM

My friend Kerry left me one of her infamous voice messages today. These are the fancy kinds that go beyond...
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The Relationship Between the Fundamentals and the Emergent

Last night was our daughter’s dance recital. She is 11 and in middle school now, and the performance combined the...