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Apr 24, 2020

How to Play Animal Crossing: New Horizons with friends

The latest Animal Crossing game has been a welcome distraction from the dumpster fire that is our world. I’ve noticed that lots of people who didn’t previously own a Nintendo Switch and/or don’t consider themselves “gamers” have been playing, which I think is fantastic! I’ve also noticed some confusion around…

Animal Crossing

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Animal Crossing

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Nov 1, 2019

Small details make a big difference: Medicare For All Calculator

While using Team Warren’s Medicare For All Calculator I was surprised and delighted by the ability to populate this prompt with a pre-calculated value: Clicking a link lets you use the average cost for a family of four or for a single adult— and of course, she cites her sources for these figures. This is a welcome improvement over the student loan debt forgiveness calculator she provided a few months back:

Medicare For All

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Small details make a big difference: Medicare For All Calculator
Small details make a big difference: Medicare For All Calculator
Medicare For All

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Dec 20, 2017

UX of Learning Management Systems

A while back, I wrote about what it means to incorporate UX principles into instructional design. I mentioned that the faculty perspective is often absent from these conversations, meaning that the UX of creating a good UX for students… is bad for instructors. …

Educational Technology

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UX of Learning Management Systems
UX of Learning Management Systems
Educational Technology

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Nov 16, 2017

I (finally) understand Iterators!

I’m an entirely self-taught coder. Like many women who came of age in the 00s, I learned HTML and CSS in order to spruce up my profile pages for MySpace and LiveJournal. I didn’t realize how valuable those skills could be until I started creating and editing websites as an…

JavaScript

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I (finally) understand Iterators!
I (finally) understand Iterators!
JavaScript

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Oct 19, 2017

What students with disabilities wish their instructors knew

***Note: the images embedded in this article are images of presentation slides, the content of which is discussed in the text of the article. I work as an instructional technologist in the New York University Faculty of Arts & Science Office of Educational Technology. In effort to keep in line…

Education

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What students with disabilities wish their instructors knew
What students with disabilities wish their instructors knew
Education

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Oct 13, 2017

Small details make a big difference.

After uploading my resume, I stared at this screen for almost a full minute, trying to figure out how to proceed with this job application. I was doubly frustrated, because many companies use this system for job applications, and I run into this issue every. single. time. …

UX

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Small details make a big difference.
Small details make a big difference.
UX

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·Aug 16, 2017

How I planned and built my first JavaScript project

As part of my freeCodeCamp Front End Development certificate, I was asked to build a random quote generator which met the following requirements: User can click a button to see a new quote User can click a button to tweet out a quote Since I want to add this project…

Web Development

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How I planned and built my first JavaScript project
How I planned and built my first JavaScript project
Web Development

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Jul 16, 2017

Mapping UX to ID: What Instructional Designers Can Learn from User Experience Design

I just finished up a one-week workshop on Learner Experience Design, taught by Jessica Knott from Michigan State University. As an instructional designer, I have been looking for ways to bring UX principles into my work, and Knott’s workshop certainly provided some inspiration. …

Education

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Mapping UX to ID: What Instructional Designers Can Learn from User Experience Design
Mapping UX to ID: What Instructional Designers Can Learn from User Experience Design
Education

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·Apr 19, 2017

Twitter’s hidden accessibility feature

I first joined Twitter in 2008, and found it so boring that I doubted it would ever catch on. I suppose we can call that my Prince moment. Anyway, I joined before it was easy to share images, and now almost half of all tweets contain images. Lately I’ve been…

Accessibility

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Twitter’s hidden accessibility feature
Twitter’s hidden accessibility feature
Accessibility

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