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...
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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...
September 26, 2022
Stages of Learning and Edtech Improvements
There are multiple stages each learner goes through in the process of learning something new. Learning (as well as “online learning” and “eLearning” and...
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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...
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...
Free your Facebook Contacts with Friends to Gmail
Over the years, the big social networks Facebook and Twitter have quietly removed your ability to export your contacts out of their systems....
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...
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