The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations
This is a method of constructing effective PowerPoint presentations in a way that helps your audience pay attention to you and understand your ideas...
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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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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...
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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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Robo-Grading Essays with EdX Discern: A Middle Path with Our New Robot Overlords
Recently MOOC provider EdX unveiled Discern, a tool for automatically grading written student work like essays and short answer questions. The NY Times article...
MakerSpaces in Education | Horizon Report 2014
One of the emerging trends from the 2014 NMC Horizon Report is the growing prevalence of MakerSpaces in education. MakerSpaces (also called HackerSpaces) are places where...
Teacher as Curator: Capture and Organize Learning Materials with Web 2.0 Tools
In the 21st Century world of abundant free educational content, teachers are challenged to shed the role of “content area expert” and adopt the...
Social Collaboration on Campus: What’s the Ideal Scenario?
We all take it for granted that when you join up with a university, they give you a shiny new email address with a...
WebRTC: A New Standard for Free, Open Video Chat, File Sharing, and More In the Browser
Everybody loves video chatting with friends, sharing files, instant messaging, and web surfing together. In education, it seems like we always need newer and...
Beyond Learning to Code: Many Paths to Become Tech Amazing
In recent years, the mainstream has largely gotten the message that learning to code is an essential 21st Century skill. The many great free...
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....
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...
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