Rob Wiltbank

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Teaching with the Total Package (TPACK)

Posted in: Instructional Technology, Pedagogy, Strategies, Teaching March 6th, 2015

TPACK

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 teachingRead more

Pedagogy: An Introduction

Posted in: Pedagogy December 15th, 2014

Pedagogy

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 yearsRead more

Resizing Images on the Fly with PHP

Posted in: PHP, Web Development November 2nd, 2014

“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 someRead more

PHP CLI (Command Line Interface)

Posted in: PHP, Web Development October 19th, 2014

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 basedRead more

Asynchronous Page Refresh with JQuery and PHP

Posted in: JQuery, Oracle, PHP, Web Development September 29th, 2014

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. UnderstandingRead more

PHP Traits

Posted in: General February 26th, 2014

Red-headed?  Widow’s peak?  Blue eyes? Naw, not those kind of traits!  As of PHP 5.4, the implementation of Traits has been added.  In terms of object oriented programming, we know that the single-level inheritence restriction of PHP can be, well, limiting.  However, this will allow for horizontal code-reuse by creation reusable sub-classes that can be implementedRead more

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