Listen to Course Readings Later with Pocket Text To Speech
If you’re a student or an academic, you probably have a large volume of reading you need to do every week, and there’s only...
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March 24, 2023
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...
February 17, 2023
Clean Up your Browser when Screen Sharing
This current era of frequent Zoom meetings and screen sharing means I get to see how lots of peoples’ browsers are set up, whether...
November 21, 2022
By The Power of WordPress! Verified on Mastodon by my Blog
Unlike in certain birdbrained areas of the web, Mastodon allows you to verify your account by associating it with your WordPress blog. Following this...
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Teachers: Use ChromeCast for Wireless Presentations on Desktop and Mobile
As a teacher and frequent presenter, I always carry a MacBook Pro DVI to VGA adapter in my bag so I can connect to...
Open Source Video Subtitles for Accessibility with Amara.org
Amara, formerly Universal Subtitles (which I thought was a better name) is an open source tool to let your audience contribute subtitles...
Action-Oriented eLearning with the Humble WebQuest
One challenge about creating reusable eLearning content is that designers often fall back into the banking model of education, creating a passive and dependent learning...
Setting the Record Straight on Automated Essay Scoring
I was recently quoted in Devon Haynie’s U.S. News and World Report article on the topic of Automated Essay Scoring, and when I saw...
Big Data Requires Big Compassion
A friend reminded me of the site Spurious Correlations, which shows absurd “relationships” between data that couldn’t possibly be related– though it’s fun to...
How Open Badges Can Promote Student Motivation
When we ask “why offer Mozilla Open Badges in education?”, the answer often comes back “to motivate students”. When we ask “how exactly does that...
#ELI5 Explain Like I’m Five: Making Student Learning Explicit, Simple
You may remember my previous post about using Reddit’s #TIL (Today I Learned) hashtag as a tool for metacognition, similar to an “exit ticket”....
Project management with Hojoki: Creating Order from Chaos
Managing a project where your team has to use several different cloud apps to get work done can be extremely confusing. I discovered...
Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker for Enhanced Video eLearning in HTML5
Mozilla Popcorn Maker is a free tool for triggering rich web content to pop up as a web video plays. You can import a...
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