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29

Sep

Tech Integration Approaches, Terms, and Definitions Infographic

"Because your message is only as good as your ability to share it." The quotation above comes from the video The Value of Data Visualization. The video ends with the above…

11

Sep

Site Redesign!

Out with the old and in with the new! I've had this website since 2018 and I started things off simply with a minimalistic theme that made things easy to…

04

May

Opportunities for Empathy

Cover photo by Joshua Ness on Unsplash With the rise of the design cycle (pictured below), empathy has been a trendy word that has quickly risen to increasing prominence. As a Design…

29

Apr

Truth Literacy

Cover Photo by Dane Deaner on Unsplash We live in a "post-truth" world. In 2019 we have technologies that can say and show things that are so convincingly real, yet these "deep…

21

Apr

Online Safety. Together.

Cover Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay In my last blog post I discussed how technology is rapidly changing and as a result, the way we communicate is also changing.…

12

Apr

Discussion: Norms of Social Media

Cover Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay As an instructional coach of technology, I get the opportunity to sit down and plan with many teachers. It's fun to be able…

07

Apr

Creating Can Build Empathy

Cover image by Nguyen Ngoc Vu for alexmcmillan.co. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creating artistic work that contains original thought that the artist highly values can encourage empathy when faced with decisions…

10

Mar

Unit Plan: “A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words”

Image credit: Alex McMillan (me) I've been working on a spur of the moment unit lately-- we are doing an experiential learning field trip with our 8th graders, but only…

03

Mar

Connections

It's 1999. I am 16 and I going to a restaurant for a job interview. I arrive a few minutes early and wait at one of the restaurant's golden tables…