#TIL “Today I Learned”: A Fun Web Meme that’s Great for Promoting Metacognition
Readers of Twitter and Reddit will likely recognize the hashtag #TIL. It stands for “Today I Learned”, and is used with a new and...
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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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Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs: How Service-Oriented Schools can Add Value in the Online Learning Boom
This past year has brought a massive amount of attention to Massive Open Online Courses, and much speculation about what they mean for traditional...
Expanding and Owning my Content at TedCurran.net
I’m very interested in how open source publishing tools like WordPress can empower individuals to own their data, understand and learn from their...
A Teacher’s Guide to Equal Access in the Age of BYOD, Web 2.0, and Mobile Computing
Classroom Responses Systems (AKA “clickers”) offer teachers and students a way to make classroom lectures more interactive and engaging than lectures alone. Eric Mazur,...
How to Use Online Learning Tools to Increase Interaction and Improve Learning Outcomes
Promoting Interaction in Your Assignments – Broadband from Samuel Merritt U Academic Tech on Vimeo. Do you wish you could make one change...
“Own the Means of Production”: What Karl Marx Knew about Opportunity in the Digital Economy
Even though the Internet is often credited for bringing about a “New Economy”, in fact many longstanding economic trends continue to play themselves out...
The Internet Mantra
In trying to boil down the secrets of being a good computer user, I came up with this simple Internet Mantra– please share it...
Making HTML5 Presentations in the Cloud with Markdown: Slid.es
Since coming to the realization that we should all be writing for the web and not for paper, I’ve been trying to figure out...
Reflection on Losing a Laptop– Security, Syncing, and Lessons Learned
This week I had a taste of fear and regret when I thought I left my laptop on the bus. I spent a whole...
Sleep Cycle Smartphone Apps Wake You When You’re Rested
I was never a worse insomniac than when I was teaching. I would often spend nights just staring at the ceiling, my mind racing...
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