by Mike Macfadden | Dec 1, 2017
In this post, I I reflect upon my experience in the Ed Tech game, and examine just how I came to be the Google Slides Templates guy (a title I just made up). A Little History From 2011-2014, I was employed as an instructional technology coach in a great little school...
by Mike Macfadden | Feb 7, 2016
In this episode of The Progress Report, Brian and I share how we use Twitter as an instructional tool. SUBSCRIBE TO RECEIVE MY NEWSLETTER. SUBSCRIBE! You have Successfully Subscribed!...
by Mike Macfadden | Jan 6, 2016
In this post, I’m going to make a case AGAINST student blogging and suggest, what I believe to be, a superior alternative instead. What Blogs Were Supposed To Do For Students Blogs were supposed to offer students a platform upon which they could share their...
by Mike Macfadden | Jan 5, 2016
This documentary is fascinatingly interesting, heartbreaking, and amazingly well done. The Internet’s Own Boy Brief Review The Internet’s Own Boy portrays the incredible life and tragic death of Aaron Swartz who is best known for founding Reddit.com and...
by Mike Macfadden | Nov 7, 2014
Comic Sans is probably used more heavily in the field of education than anywhere else. I consider this a problem. What’s wrong with Comic Sans? There are two camps – those who use Comic Sans regularly and those who disdain it. I fall into the latter camp....
by Mike Macfadden | Nov 2, 2014
It used to be a real pain to teach students WordPress development, but that is changing. Code Anywhere CodeAnywhere.com has completely changed the way I teach HTML and CSS. My students have access to a professional grade, syntax highlighting text editor that is...
