Have You Hugged Your App Dev Today?
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...
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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.
September 11, 2023
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...
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...
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Digital Native Students are More Consumers than Creators
Embed from Getty Images OK, friends– it’s time to get over it. You might call young people “digital native students” but there are severe...
Black Menu for Chrome: All Your Google Tools At Your Fingertips
This week I discovered Black Menu for Chrome, an extension that lets you access any of your Google tools from a dropdown in the...
Don’t Hate the LMS, It Can Help Keep Our Focus on Learning
I’ve been noticing an interesting thread in online conversations recently, with people I respect either bashing or defending the LMS. Audrey Watters’ Beyond the...
Automatically Mute Your Phone at School or Work with IFTTT.com
You know that moment when the room is quiet and everyone is calmly focused on a speaker– and then someone’s annoying ringtone goes off...
Letter to a New Teacher Blogger: Getting Started with Your New Blog
A longtime friend, colleague, and collaborator of mine who works in new teacher education is starting a blog, and asked me for some help...
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...
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...
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...
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