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The Best AI Resources for Educators

Are you curious about artificial intelligence (AI) but not sure where to start? If so, you’re definitely not alone! When I was a STEM classroom teacher, I started playing with AI technology out of curiosity, quicky learning that there was a lack of guidance around how to use AI effectively

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How To Use HTML and CSS for Web Design

Have you ever heard of HTML or CSS and not known what they are? To put it simply, HTML and CSS involve writing lines of code to build and customize web pages and web applications. In this post I will go over three examples of how I used HTML and

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How To Get Adults Excited About Their Learning

How do you get adults excited about learning initiatives at your organization or in your professional community? This is a question I have been asking myself a lot lately, so I did my research and reflected upon my 15+ years of experience in education and training to come up with

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Review: Cloud Practitioner Essentials Day

Today I attended the Cloud Practitioner Essentials Day hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a virtual, instructor-led format. I was a little unsure of what to expect when signing up for this 6-hour course on my day off, but I was quickly put at ease by the instructor and

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WordPress.org: What Beginners Need to Know

I have received many questions about how I built this portfolio website, so I figured I would write a post to share some advice! If you are new to WordPress.org, below is some helpful information that I wish I knew before I got started. I built this website with WordPress.org

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Learn How to Code for FREE!

During Spring 2020, during the height of the pandemic lockdown, I had to be creative about engaging learners in a meaningful way online. Energy-filled classrooms were replaced with eerily quiet Zoom rooms. As I was accustomed to leading very hands-on learning experiences, I had to pivot to a whole new

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