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Adapting to Change in 2020

It feels like it’s been ten years since I’ve updated the blog, but it has in fact been just over one. As everywhere in higher education, this new year has had its ups and downs, but I’ve been most impressed with the adaptability of our students, faculty, and employer partners to our temporary new reality.…

Life Update 2017-18

It’s been quite some time since my last post, but hopefully I will be back to posting regularly again. Much has changed in the past year. I left my position at Ashland University last fall due to family circumstances. I spent late 2017 and the first half of 2018 helping as an in-home caregiver for…

A Guide to Mastodon

A beginner's guide to microblogging on Mastodon (opensource.com)

Meet Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative that's spreading like wildfire.

Reading A beginner’s guide to microblogging on Mastodon by Seth Kenlon and testing the “Link” WordPress Format and the “Like” IndieWeb Post Kind. I’ve been trying out Mastodon as a Twitter alternative for a few days and find it pretty interesting, although I find myself following nearly as many GNU Social users as I do…

Site Updated

This site has been updated to a new theme – ZenPress – which will hopefully be a more usable day-to-day site than the former too-structured format this site had used. It’s my hope to continue to bring content that I’ve posted around the web in here for this to serve as my main website. Some…

Launch of This Site

Hello, world! I’ve started putting together my site and hope to add additional information here shortly. But first, I want to give a huge thanks all the people who contributed to making this site possible: – Dreamhost, my excellent web host – Wordpress, the creators of a wonderful CMS – Start Bootstrap, who designed this…