Audrey Watters

Travel Nope. I did get some travel plans made for May (I’ll be speaking at Davidson College). Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Pearson, PARCC, Privacy, Surveillance, & Trust SRA Cards: A History of Programmed Instruction and Personalization Doxxing to Defend...

Earlier this year, the Associated Press broke a story that HealthCare.gov was “quietly sending consumers’ personal data to private companies that specialize in advertising and analyzing Internet data for performance and marketing.” The site had Google Analytics and Twitter and Facebook sharing buttons installed. Chances are, your website is doing...

Travel Nope. Yesterday was one of the annual cringeworthy days for Hermosa Beach livin': the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. I’m a little worried how hot it is in Los Angeles already. But hey. Sunshine. I can put up with one or two days of drunkenness in the streets, as...

Travel (and Speaking) I traveled to Washington DC for 48 hours. Thankfully I was able to escape as the storm hit on Thursday morning. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Fingers crossed: no more travel until the end of April. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter From...

Travel Nope. I was in Hermosa Beach all week. Upcoming week: Washington DC. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter How Steve Jobs Brought the Apple II to the Classroom Writing Elsewhere Reclaim Your Domain (with Jekyll): Parts 2–4 on audreywatters.com How Steve Jobs Brought the...

I hung out today (virtually) with Sava and Liana, and we chatted about the potential for using GitHub Pages to "reclaim your domain." I'm working on a book right now (omg, the manuscript is due, like, Saturday) about the very topic, so I'm frustrated and amazed how hard it still...

Travel (and Speaking) Kin and I traveled to San Francisco and to Toronto this week, then back home to Hermosa Beach. Holy crap, Toronto was cold. That's where I spoke at ChangSchoolTalks 2015. (The transcript from my talk is below.) Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Hack Education Writing Hack Education Weekly...

I’m going to be Hangout-ing with several folks later this week to talk about how to use Github and Jekyll in order to own your own domain. (This is how I run both Hack Education and this site, along with all my various projects.) I promised I’d give some pre-Hangout...

Travel My first trip to Australia had me in Sydney (for API Days, where Kin spoke on Wednesday), Thirroul, and Manley. I hung out on Tuesday with Kate Bowles – certainly the highlight of my trip. (Kin's photos and mine are on Flickr.) Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach, then Toronto. Hack...

Travel Most of the week was spent in Hermosa Beach. Kin and I boarded a flight to Sydney at 10:30 Friday night. We landed in Australia at 8 Sunday morning. I have no idea WTF time it is right now or what day it is. Stupid International Date Line. But...