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Understanding by Design (UbD): Teaching “Backwards”

Understanding by Design (UbD): Teaching “Backwards”

Posted on August 13, 2020May 3, 2026Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Learning in Public, Tech, Top Posts, Tutorials, WritingLeave a Reply

What is Understanding by Design? It’s a way of creating curriculum content “backwards” by starting with “What do we want students to learn?”

Self-Publishing Successful eBooks

Self-Publishing Successful eBooks

Posted on July 30, 2020May 3, 2026Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Book-Club, Learning in Public, Self-Employment, Tutorials2 Replies

How does one self-publish a successful ebook? I investigate what highly successful author Nathan Barry (founder of ConvertKit) had to say.

#100DaysOfCode Challenge

#100DaysOfCode Challenge

Posted on September 13, 2017January 29, 2025Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Challenge, Health, Learning in Public, Tech23 Replies

I began my first round of “100 Days Of Code” Challenge to brush up on my HTML and CSS skills! #100DaysOfCode

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Hiroko Nishimura

Hiroko Nishimura is an AWS Community Hero, technical instructor at LinkedIn Learning, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers.

She writes about her jarring transition to motherhood on Substack. Many posts are reposted on this blog as well under Tag: Substack. Looking for my Japanese posts?

She is a brain injury and brain surgery survivor, writing about dealing with adult Executive Dysfunction/ADHD.

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