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Become AWS Cloud Practitioner with an AWS Hero!

Become AWS Cloud Practitioner with an AWS Hero!

Posted on April 7, 2025May 22, 2025Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Tech, Top Posts, TutorialsLeave a Reply

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam from zero? Learn how to supercharge your exam studies for AWS CLF-C02 with AWS Hero Hiroko Nishimura.

Lost and Found: My “words” after brain surgery

Lost and Found: My “words” after brain surgery

Posted on December 6, 2022May 2, 2025Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Lifestyle, Tech, Top Posts, Writing5 Replies

Hiroko had life-saving brain surgery at 22 which took away her ability to convey her thoughts through writing. At 33, she published her first book.

Film photography with Ilford Sprite 35-II

Film photography with Ilford Sprite 35-II

Posted on November 8, 2022January 29, 2025Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Lifestyle, Top Posts1 Reply

Film photography first thoughts and costs associated with buying and using Ilford Sprite 35-II, and developing film with The Darkroom.

How Brain Injury and ADHD helped me find dream career in Tech

How Brain Injury and ADHD helped me find dream career in Tech

Posted on May 31, 2022August 5, 2024Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Learning in Public, Self-Employment, Tech, Top Posts, Writing4 Replies

Brain surgery left me with debilitating disabilities. It was only after I embraced my needs and accommodations that I found a dream career in tech as a technical writer and published author.

LinkedIn Learning: Teaching as a Technical Instructor

LinkedIn Learning: Teaching as a Technical Instructor

Posted on February 1, 2021April 17, 2024Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Learning in Public, Self-Employment, Tech, Top Posts15 Replies

Interested in becoming a LinkedIn Learning Instructor? I’ve published 8 courses with LinkedIn Learning, and will share the pros/cons!

From AWS Newbies to AWS Hero

From AWS Newbies to AWS Hero

Posted on November 12, 2020February 13, 2023Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Learning in Public, Tech, Top Posts7 Replies

My journey from “AWS Newbies” to “AWS Hero” 2.5 years of Cloud Computing community building!

Creating my First egghead Lesson!

Creating my First egghead Lesson!

Posted on August 26, 2020October 17, 2021Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Learning in Public, Self-Employment, Tech, Top Posts2 Replies

I just published my first egghead lesson! The instructor feedback process, the iterations, and what I learned in the process.

JavaScript Statements and Syntax: JavaScript Newbies

JavaScript Statements and Syntax: JavaScript Newbies

Posted on August 15, 2020August 17, 2021Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Learning in Public, Tech, Top Posts1 Reply

Learn about JavaScript Statements, JavaScript Syntax, Data Types, Display Possibilities, and Good Practices for beginners.

Understanding by Design (UbD): Teaching “Backwards”

Understanding by Design (UbD): Teaching “Backwards”

Posted on August 13, 2020March 29, 2025Author 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?”

From Disabled Special Ed Teacher to AWS Hero

From Disabled Special Ed Teacher to AWS Hero

Posted on July 23, 2020August 8, 2024Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Lifestyle, Self-Employment, Tech, Top Posts, Writing1 Reply

How I went from Special Ed teacher to working in IT to teaching AWS on LinkedIn Learning & becoming an AWS Community Leader.

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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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