Travel
Nope. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach.
Hack Education Writing
(I also posted a bunch of my old EML stories to Hack Education.)
Editing Educating Modern Learners
- Telling a Different Story about Education, by me
- Rethinking Success in 2015, by Will Richardson
- Encouraging Self Care, by Lee Skallerup Bessette
- EML Newsletter (Tuesday)
This was my last week as the editor of EML. I’ll continue in the new year to contribute articles from time-to-time.
Writing Elsewhere
- “Frequently Asked Questions” posted to audreywatters.com
- “The Move to Jekyll” posted to audreywatters.com
Other Projects
My major undertaking this week: a redesign of all my websites. I moved from a home-spun CMS to Jekyll. (The new theme: Mediator.) All my sites are now powered by Github Pages. No database to manage! (No database to ask Kin to help me manage!) This has allowed me to shut down my AWS server.
I’m still working on getting the sites to work and look perfectly. One problem I’ve found: Feedburner. I’ve wondered for the last year or so if and when Google was going to close Feedburner (particularly after it killed its AdSense for feeds service). On the redesigned sites, I link to the original feeds, not the Feedburner version. And I think I’ve redirected Feedburner subscribers back to the original feed too. We’ll see if it works. (Update your subscriptions: http://audreywatters.com/feed.xml and http://hackeducation.com/feed.xml.)
Because of my issues with RSS this week, I’ve decided to ditch Reeder, the application I was using to read feeds on my Mac. I use Feedbin to manage my feeds, and for now I’m quite happy simply using its Web interface to read feeds.
I enrolled audreywatters.com and hackeducation.com in Cloudflare.
Nancy Flanagan said nice things about The Monsters of Education Technology in her Ed Week column.
Family and Friends
The kid flew home on Christmas Day.
Kin and I hung out with Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez on Boxing Day.