Having Hard Conversations in Your Personal Learning Network
In Response to Tom Whitby’s The What and Why of a Professional Learning Network, and Paul Moss’ Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future....
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Edit Video with your SMEs using Text Transcription in DaVinci Resolve Studio
Often we instructional designers are given hours of video footage of recorded lectures or webinars, and it’s our job to edit them down into...
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eLearning Branching Scenarios can Learn from Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
I was lucky enough to grow up during the 1980s heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure stories, a low-tech precursor to the electronic branching...
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What’s Different Between the Life of a Classroom Teacher vs. Instructional Designer?
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
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Content Delivery Isn’t Instruction but it’s Still Important to Do Well
I religiously read Audrey Watters’ Hack Education blog, often finding that I agree with her in principle and then disagree about the details of...
Managing Project-Based Learning in Trello: A Case Study
This is a reflection on the process for using Trello in Project-Based Learning that will hopefully help you decide if Trello is right for...
Khan Academy – Style Videos? Explore Your Tools and Find Your Own Style
A faculty recently approached me asking how he could produce Khan Academy – style video lessons. He was looking for an Android tablet equivalent...
Get that “App Store” Glow on Your School’s Linux Desktops with Chrome Web Store
In response to “Prepare students for a rapidly changing world by teaching with open source” I was ready to share and recommend this post...
Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs Part II: Supporting Educators to Support Students
In the previous post, Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs, I discuss the value proposition of traditional universities, and how those values are...
“It’s the Poverty, Stupid”: Why Ed Reform and Social Reform Need Each Other
In response to Anya Kamenetz‘ post, Let them Eat iPads? Thanks for posing the issue this way. I was a charter school teacher...
“The 4:5 Rule” : Lecture Capture Video for the Internet Attention Span
How long is too long for a lecture? Teachers can commonly spend upwards of 45 minutes lecturing in class. This arbitrary time frame is...
A great look at the many ways WordPress is being used in higher ed.
“29 Ways WordPress Is Taking Over Universities and Higher Ed” http://feedly.com/k/16oSRtH
A Teacher’s Guide to Equal Access in the Age of BYOD, Web 2.0, and Mobile Computing
Classroom Responses Systems (AKA “clickers”) offer teachers and students a way to make classroom lectures more interactive and engaging than lectures alone. Eric Mazur,...
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