Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Advice for College Teachers Moving Online Quickly

A lot of teachers I know and love (including one I live with) are scrambling right now to rapidly transition their in progress face to face classes to online instruction. I don’t teach college classes anymore, but I’ve spent more than a decade helping college teachers improve the learning experience for their students and currently…

March 14, 2020

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70 Songs [December 2019]

Here’s four and a half hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in December 2019. Enjoy!

January 4, 2020

Spotify Playlists
Another 125 Songs [November 2019]

Here’s a playlist of 125 songs (nearly nine hours of music) I listened to and enjoyed in November 2019. Thanksgiving, indeed!

January 2, 2020

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50 Songs [October 2019]

Here’s a playlist of nearly four hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in October 2019:

January 2, 2020

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125 Songs [September 2019]

Here’s a playlist of more than 8 hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in September 2019. Should be just enough to get you through a working day. Enjoy!

January 2, 2020

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90 Songs [August 2019]

Here’s a playlist of 90 songs (nearly 6 hours of music!) I listened to and enjoyed in August 2019:

November 5, 2019

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70 Songs [July 2019]

Here’s a playlist of 4 1/2 hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in July 2019. Enjoy!

September 21, 2019

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50 Songs [June 2019]

Here’s a playlist of 3 1/2 hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in June 2019. Hope something moves you, too.

July 29, 2019

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75 Songs [May 2019]

Here’s a playlist of 75 songs (a little over 5 hours of music) I listened to and enjoyed in May 2019.

July 26, 2019

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April 2019 [75 Songs]

Here’s a playlist of nearly 5 1/2 hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in April 2019. Spring made its slow and winding way to Wisconsin, and the sounds were good.

May 2, 2019

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55 Songs [March 2019]

Here’s a new playlist of almost four hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in March 2019.

April 3, 2019

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60 Songs [February 2019]

Here’s a playlist of 4 and a quarter hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in February 2019.

March 23, 2019

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80 Songs [January 2019]

Here’s a playlist of nearly 5 hours of songs I listened to and enjoyed in January 2019. Enjoy!

March 20, 2019

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75 Songs [December 2018]

Here’s a playlist of 5 hours worth of music I listened to and enjoyed in December 2018. Lots of new tunes from around the world helped me say goodbye to a year that brought all kinds of changes with it. Hope you enjoy as well.

March 17, 2019

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75 Songs [November 2018]

Here’s a playlist of 5+ hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in November 2018. It was my first month working from home, and instead of listening to music on headphones, I mainly listened to stuff on a newish Sonos speaker from my home office. Don’t know if that changed what I liked all…

December 28, 2018

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55 Songs [October 2018]

Here’s a playlist of 55 songs I listened to and enjoyed in October 2018. Enjoy!

November 24, 2018

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Thoughts on Licensing: Why I Prefer CC-BY Licenses

Robin DeRosa recently posted an open question about CC licensing on Twitter that got me thinking: Thinking of changing my @creativecommons default license from CCBY to CCBYNC. I get that CCBY is the more open technically, but I'm thinking here about my vision for open (in particular as it relates to public higher ed), and…

October 20, 2018

Education Technology
55 Songs [September 2018]

Here’s a playlist of nearly 4 hours of music that I listened to and enjoyed in September 2018. Featured image by Steel Wagstaff, released under a CC-BY license.

October 17, 2018

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109 Songs [August 2018]

Here’s a playlist of 7+ hours of music I listened to and enjoyed in August 2018. Feels like just yesterday that summer was here …

October 15, 2018

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55 Songs [July 2018]

Here’s a playlist of 55 songs I listened to and enjoyed in July 2018, about 3 1/2 hours of good music.

August 14, 2018

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About the Author

Hi, I’m Steel Wagstaff. I’m the product manager for Pressbooks, a Canadian company making open source book publishing software.

I live in Eugene, Oregon with my wife, Laurel Bastian, and our elementary-school aged son.

I love poetry, music, libraries, reading, playing pickup soccer, & eating vegetarian food.

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