Today's post is a brief professional development seminar on the TPACK methodology. Learn about how to use the proper mix of content, pedagogical, and technical knowledge and why keeping those aspects of education in balance are crucial to defining the context of your lesson. Please feel free to share this with other educators and teaching Read more
Pedagogy. It's such a cool word, isn't it? If you start throwing the word "pedagogy" around in a conversation with your friends, they'll either think you know what you're talking about or their eyes will start to glaze over. I'll be honest, I had no idea there was such a word a couple of years ago! But simply put, pedagogy is the practice of a method of education, or theory of education Read more
"Why the hell am I writing articles in a blog?" That's literally what I asked myself the other day. "Self," I replied, "I want to help the world understand PHP and concepts of education better with the hopes making everyones lives better." "Liar," I shot back... to myself, "You're just getting old and want some place to put things you've figured out so you don't forget them." Sigh. So, Read more
PHP is a comprehensive and powerful language that has seen a meteoric rise over the past decade. I started working with PHP back in 1998 when I ran a gaming community on Crossroads Gaming, now known as the Warcry Network. I did a lot of what I'm doing now... connecting to databases, pulling information based on given criteria and then presenting it on a page in an attractive and organized Read more
You know those "In/Out" boards in the workplace? In an attempt to bring our office into the '00's, I was tasked with writing an electronic version in the form of a web application. My general platform is rooted in Linux, Apache, PHP and Oracle on the server-side utilizing Bootstrap for the front-end user interface. Understanding that this was to be a very simple application, I took a very Read more