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Chris DeWuske
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Being a master in educational technology, I spend my days putting out fires for other peoples' tech. The rest of the time, I'd rather be outside than staring at a screen. I'm an enigmatic genealogist with a penchant for photography, writing, and a love of the creative. Put the phone down and find me nestled in my garden or coasting around the shoreline. There's a whole world happening around you, if you look close enough.
Modified Contour Line – Hand Drawings
If you stumbled upon this post but haven’t seen my lesson on blind contour hand drawings, check that link out first! After feeling comfortable with blind contour, the next natural…
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Blind Contour Drawing: Hands
I remember learning “blind” contour drawing in art class in elementary, middle, and high school. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until I was student teaching that I learned why blind contour was…
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Drawing Contained Space (Geometric) Landscapes
I created this video for my students in my drawing class to learn from during distance learning, inspired by Black Lantern’s geometric landscape illustration. https://www.blacklantern.com/blogs/news/new-geometric-landscape-illustration This two-day mini project is…
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Ethics and Technology in Education: Protecting Ethical Dissent, Avoiding Groupthink, and Fostering Healthy Disagreement in a Time of Cancel Culture
This was a piece I wrote for an ethics class for my master’s degree in educational technology. The purpose of this assignment was to research a current ethical issue regarding…
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Authentic Leadership: Normative Leadership Theories Impact Paper
This paper was written for my master’s level ethics course to examine educational philosophy and values of an ethical leader. The Ancient Greeks promoted the value, “Know thyself.” The value…
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Copyright, Fair Use, and the Public Domain
Link to Google Slides Link to Intellectual Property Quiz This teacher resource was created for my master’s level course in educational ethics. Feel free to use, adapt, and modify as…
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Incorporating TPACK and SAMR into Lesson Planning
Like everything in education, the world of edtech is swimming with acronyms, perhaps none more important than SAMR and TPACK. While I’m not into educational fads or acronymizing every facet…
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Open-Source Curriculum and 1:1 Device Implementation
This plan was created for my Professional Development and Leadership in Educational Technology course at Concordia Academy. Through this project, I needed to create an executable technology implementation plan and…
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Blue Screen of Death: WHEA Uncorrectable Error
So tonight, I ran into an issue while uploading some files via FTP. My custom computer build gave me a Blue Screen of Death with the error code: “WHEA_Uncorrectable_Error.” It…
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My Laptop: Everything from Disk Cloning to Overheating
Last summer, I began wondering why my two-year old HP 15-d035dx laptop was frequently overheating. I couldn’t hear the fan running, which was my initial clue that something was going…
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