Audrey Watters
Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.
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Uses HP OfficeJet
I prefer to edit my writing on paper than on a screen, so I do print out longer essays and chapters and make changes by hand. I have an HP OfficeJet printer.
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Uses MacBook Air
I use a MacBook Air that's four or five years old. (My god, I hope it never breaks because the new MacBooks suck.)
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Liked Pilot Gel Ink Retractive Roller Ball
I used to have a special fountain pen, but printer cartridges and fountain pen cartridges are annoying and expensive, and so these days I stick with the ol' Pilot Gel Ink Retractive Roller Ball pen. Blue ink. It's got to be blue ink.
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Liked Scrivener
For my book, I've used Scrivener to store all my research notes. I don't actually write in Scrivener; but it's been really useful to help me organize this big writing project.
usesthis.com 15 Oct 2019
Uses Firefox
DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. Firefox is my default browser.
usesthis.com 15 Oct 2019
Uses DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. Firefox is my default browser.
usesthis.com 15 Oct 2019
Disliked Microsoft Word
When I'm writing articles etc that need to be shared with an editor, I typically write in Microsoft Word. I hate all word processing software, and anyone who insists that Google Docs is so much better than Word is a liar.
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Liked Jekyll
I've run all my sites on Jekyll and GitHub Pages for a while now. I have found it easier to manage than WordPress (particularly as I know next to nothing about databases),
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Uses Sublime Text
I export HTML from Byword into Sublime Text. My website runs on Jekyll and I use the GitHub desktop tool to commit files to my site.
usesthis.com 15 Oct 2019
Liked Byword
For writing articles for my website, I compose in Byword, which is a Markdown text editor. (I like it because it syncs between my Apple devices.
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Where they publish
Site audreywatters.com Her personal site.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
Blog Hack Education Her long-running site of education-technology criticism.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
x.com @audreywatters Her X account.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
GitHub @audreywatters Where the Jekyll sources for her sites live.
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- audreywatters.com — This repository powers the Audrey Watters website 1 May 2026
- hackeducation.com — The Hack Education website 13 Jan 2025
- cv — CV subdomain 13 Jan 2025
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- kinlane — This is my personal site. 14 Dec 2024
- 2ndbreakfast-podcast — Second Breakfast Podcast 28 Apr 2024
- food — Food subdomain 4 Jan 2023
- teachingmachines — This repository powers the Teaching Machines website 17 Jul 2022
- edtechwtf — Ed-Tech WTF 9 Jul 2022
- books — Books subdomain 15 Jun 2022
- speaking — Speaking subdomain 15 Jun 2022
- writing — Writing subdomain 15 Jun 2022
- research — research subdomain 2 Jan 2022
- disclosures — Disclosures subdomain 28 May 2020
- isaiah — This repository powers the kid's website 19 May 2020
- teaching — Teaching subdomain 3 Jan 2020
- moocthulhu — This repository powers the Moocthulhu website 3 Jan 2020
- faq — FAQ subdomain 3 Jan 2020
- about — Curriculum Vitae, Biography, and Other Files 3 Jan 2020
- week-in-review — What I got up to... 20 Sept 2019
- education-futurism — This repository is a placeholder for Education Futurism 27 Dec 2018
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