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November 22, 2023

On-Stage Teleprompter using Free Open Source Tools

Clip, organize, store, sync, and display your chord sheets using free and open source tools. This workflow is years in the making, now perfect.

The Attention Method of Presentation Design

February 10, 2023

The “Attention Method” for Effective Presentation Decks – Updated

This is an update to my previous post, The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations. My Attention Method™ of presentation design is a philosophy...

Featured / Free Apps / Free Software / Learning Design

May 6, 2022

Alfred for Mac — Ferocious Tools for Instructional Designers

Alfred is my #1 favorite productivity tool for the Mac, and over the years I have developed some ferocious tricks to support the tasks...

Free Apps / HTML5 EdTech / Learning Design

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Review: Typora Markdown Editor for Mac

Blogging / EdTech / Free Apps
January 25, 2016

I have been evaluating Typora, a markdown editor for Mac (currently free while in beta). Its killer feature is a distraction-free interface that allows...

Get Free eBooks and Support Your Local Library | Overdrive App

EdTech / Free Apps / Learning Communities / TeacherHax
September 15, 2015

Public libraries are an incredibly valuable community resource that sometimes get taken for granted. As we transition from print to digital media formats, libraries...

How I Stay Up on EdTech Tools

Blogging / EdTech / Featured / Free Apps / HTML5 EdTech / Learning Communities / TeacherHax / Web 2.0
April 16, 2015

This post started life as a response to a question on Reddit and grew into a far-reaching manifesto on my approach to staying current...

When BitTorrent Sync is the Right EdTech Tool

EdTech / Free Apps / Web 2.0
February 23, 2015

You can think of BitTorrent Sync as “Dropbox without the Cloud”. Not to be confused with the underlying technology of BitTorrent, this is a...

Have You Hugged Your App Dev Today?

AndroidEdu / Free Apps / TeacherHax / Web 2.0
January 23, 2015

Foodies make an obsession out of “knowing your farmer” and “knowing where your food comes from”, but shouldn’t the same thing go for the...

HTML5 Presentations from Markdown to Reveal.js

EdTech / Featured / Free Apps / HTML5 EdTech
January 16, 2015

This video shows you how you can quickly convert a Markdown formatted presentation outline into an HTML5 presentation using Reveal.js. I think this method...

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POSSE: Why Your Blog Should Be the Center of Your Digital Life

Blogging / Free Apps / Web 2.0
December 9, 2014

http://gty.im/162890895 The Social Media Status Quo is Broken Most people and businesses maintain several social media profiles, flitting from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram to LinkedIn (and...

Jobs: 'I don't want to make Android users happy'

Choose Multi-Platform Apps for Inclusive Collaboration

EdTech / Free Apps
October 27, 2014

JR Raphael of Computer world just published an excellent slideshow featuring 20 great productivity apps for Android, iOS, and the Web. Unsurprisingly, it reads...