KeeganSLW on I am thankful for many things in my life (wife, family, work, Star Wars, etc.). However, I want to write about two things that have been a significant part of my life over the last year. Teaching Some of the biggest projects I have been working on include a Mobile Blogging & Scholarship Workshop Series and a Lynda.com Course Integration Faculty Learning Community. […]
KeeganSLW on Using the “Simple API” from Unsplash, I am able to present random images ever time this page loads. Go on, refresh the page to see the Simple API in action! 🙂 The Best Part You can add this Simple API to your websites using the following HTML text: <img src=”https://source.unsplash.com/random” /> And variations of this link can […]
KeeganSLW on Time to break down one of my favorite mobile device workflows! Text To write this post, I am using the WordPress app. You can download this for Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, or Windows Phone. With this app, you can create an entire website on your phone in a matter of seconds through WordPress.com. However, I […]
KeeganSLW on Recently I led an educational technology workshop at Youth Workers Academy, and one of the technologies I covered in this training was social media. To engage participants with Twitter, I had everyone research what the Bible says about poverty and paraphrase their findings into 140 characters—with the intention these contributions could be tweeted to the world. However, I […]
KeeganSLW on Hello internet, it has been a while. I have wanted to do more blogging recently. Yet, I keep running into the issue of starting a post with an awesome idea, but keeping the post in draft form indefinitely because it is not high enough quality or I feel there are pieces missing. I need to interrupt this pattern. […]
KeeganSLW on Yesterday concluded the first section of my Mobile Blogging & Scholarship Training. This is a professional development workshop series for instructors at the University of Oklahoma, which I created in my role as Educational Technologist at the Center for Teaching Excellence. The Course Over the course of nine hours, six sessions, and two weeks, professors […]
KeeganSLW on It is easier to learn incremental changes in an Operating System (OS) than wait 12 years and be overwhelmed by drastic differences. Let me put some context to this thought: Last weekend I was talking with an extended family member, who was describing his update from Windows XP to Windows 8.1 and being disappointed with […]
KeeganSLW on Originally posted on the Center for Teaching Excellence Blog Amazon already makes self-publishing a straightforward process for everyone who wants to publish e-books to the Kindle platform. Now Amazon aims to make the self-publishing process even easier for educators. With the release of the Kindle Textbook Creator (still in beta), instructors can take prepared, PDF […]
KeeganSLW on Originally posted on the Center for Teaching Excellence Blog Today, there are many different types of digital writing instruments. Since they can be utilized to create instructional videos, record notes, and create interactive presentations they can be a valuable tool in the university classroom. Since there are dozens of different digital writing devices, I have […]
KeeganSLW on Originally posted on the Center for Teaching Excellence Blog In the real world, nothing teleports from one place to another. And that’s why it’s so important to animate every change on screen in a way that makes sense. – Matias Duarte, Vice President of Design, Android at Google Nowadays, animation is being integrated into the […]