#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...
Clip, organize, store, sync, and display your chord sheets using free and open source tools. This workflow is years in the making, now perfect.
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...
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...
Readers of Twitter and Reddit will likely recognize the hashtag #TIL. It stands for “Today I Learned”, and is used with a new and...
This past year has brought a massive amount of attention to Massive Open Online Courses, and much speculation about what they mean for traditional...
I’m very interested in how open source publishing tools like WordPress can empower individuals to own their data, understand and learn from their...
Classroom Responses Systems (AKA “clickers”) offer teachers and students a way to make classroom lectures more interactive and engaging than lectures alone. Eric Mazur,...
Promoting Interaction in Your Assignments – Broadband from Samuel Merritt U Academic Tech on Vimeo. Do you wish you could make one change...
Even though the Internet is often credited for bringing about a “New Economy”, in fact many longstanding economic trends continue to play themselves out...
In trying to boil down the secrets of being a good computer user, I came up with this simple Internet Mantra– please share it...
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...
This week I had a taste of fear and regret when I thought I left my laptop on the bus. I spent a whole...
I was never a worse insomniac than when I was teaching. I would often spend nights just staring at the ceiling, my mind racing...