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Making a difference, sometimes

03.06.2021 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Empty chairs in a classroom

In these times of isolation and distance, it’s easy to lose sight of what my work means. But in the past two days, I received two emails that have brought that into focus.

It felt good.

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The best, etc., of 2020

12.21.2020 by Greg Kemble // 2 Comments

Red skies and tree silhouettes
Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash

I ended last year’s “Best of, etc.” with a strangely quaint optimism: “here’s hoping for a 2020 that doesn’t suck.”

Cute.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // 14, comics, covid, curtis holtzen, goat rodeo, hp lovecraft, jay rosen, josh kemble, lala, lee child, peter clines, pressthink, privilege, reacher, stephen colbert, teaching, tiki bar tv, yo-yo ma

Captions in YouTube: accurate and in sync

07.27.2020 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The pandemic has pushed a lot of teachers into distance education. And distance ed requires — legally, yes, but also pedagogically — that we accurately caption our videos.

At a recent workshop, some colleagues expressed interest in a video about how I handle captions in YouTube… et voilà!

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Categories // Utility Tags // captions, online teaching, teaching, tools, youtube

Two ways I use TextExpander

07.03.2020 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

If you find yourself typing the same things over and over, TextExpander might be the tool for you.

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The best, etc., of 2019

12.30.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Orange sunset over water

Not that it makes any difference, really — the year was what it was, and no amount of whining will change that — but I’m not a big fan of 2019.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // 2019, agency, backpack, billie eilish, carpool karaoke, christianity today, cosplay, curtis holtzen, james corden, lunaevayg, martin scorcese, matt walker, monitor, neal stephenson, neuromancer, online teaching, parenting, sleep, snow crash, spanish, spider-man, spider-verse, tara brach, teaching, the peripheral, thomas pynchon, video, william gibson, year end, yolsf

What I’m reading (and teaching): McIntyre’s Post-Truth

07.30.2018 by Greg Kemble // 1 Comment

Fingers crossed

I’m more nervous than usual about the upcoming semester.

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