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Lots of learning

Wow! Soooo long since my last blog post. Since then I have been 'hiding in my cave' doing lots of learning. I am proud of all the things I had to learn to publish the latest GSuite Add-on: Automagical Forms...

Exiting my startup notalgia

Wow, I needed to put another blog post after this one two weeks ago. I have an exciting release coming soon that I want to blog about along with the development process, but first a nostalgic one inspired by the final episode of the podcast Startup...

My struggle as a businessperson

tldr; Thank you Kim and thank you Jen! Give ShukesAndGiff a go! Creating is hard. Know your core beliefs and stick to them. Storytime. This one might be a long one and might turn into more of a rant.....

Dealing with the Chrome Store publishing process

My goal is to be transparent about the processes of publishing my apps. I am in the process of publishing another app, you will see some crumbs populate this site as I need to have some assets for required bits in the publishing process...

Code doesn't care and that can be awesome

The more experienced a math teacher I was, the more I was comfortable in exploring my flaws and inherent bias built up over the years. (more on those for a different post). As a relatively new coder..

Teach learning to Code

I ran across this awesome podcast, [https://ladybug.dev/episode/teaching-code/], that discusses teaching how to teach people learning to Code. I love the baseline here that these 3 awesome ladies are not formally trained educators and have great insight into being a successful teacher...

Math lesson with coding (no prerequisite knowledge)

This article is a tutorial with a base math lesson on functions using coding to build a Chrome Extension. No coding knowledge required...

Mindfulness is amazing

My last post talked about how I was struggling. Realize that I understand we all struggle and each of us have our own path, obstacles to overcome, and individual struggles...

Support, self-care, and more sharing

As you can see I skipped another few days blogging. In today's Insta & Facebook culture where what is shared is curated to show perfection, it is hard to share when you struggle. I have been tangling with some tricky code and getting bogged down with that instead of blogging and Tweeting. But these are exactly the days I need to blog or share, and more importantly ask for help...

Lets talk about free

I want to talk about something I feel like is Taboo in the EdTech space, paying for an app. It really irritates me when teachers want to find a free alternative to a good product...

Impostor Syndrome

So over the past 15ish years I have struggled to share publicly and one of the reasons excuses I have learned about was Impostor Syndrome...

FormCreator update

This one is for my EdTech peeps with a nod to the entrepreneurs at the end. I just update FormCreator and want to highlight some of the features that were updated...

Finding the right pricing

This one is geared towards the entrepreneurs, but I think it has value for the educators as well to see my thought process. One of the difficult parts of shipping a product is finding the right pricing. I listen to a ton of podcasts on Startups, some of my favorites are..

Why should I read this thing?

Great question! I plan on sharing content that will be valuable to a couple groups of people...

How are you going to eat?!

So how do you plan to survive, like pay rent and eat? That is the big question that random (ok, not mathematically random) people ask me. I have a strategy that will employ a few different approaches...

Blogging... this time I am going to do it!

Hey all, So here is the first post that I am putting out in documenting my startup journey. I hope to share information as I travel along this amazing journey. I assume there will be lots of ups and some downs (hopefully more ups than down) and want to try to be as transparent as possible for anyone trying to follow the same dream...