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June 13, 2023

eLearning Branching Scenarios can Learn from Choose Your Own Adventure Stories

I was lucky enough to grow up during the 1980s heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure stories, a low-tech precursor to the electronic branching...

November 15, 2021

Alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram 2021

Exploring the best alternatives to mainstream social networks to free yourself from the Zuckerverse.

Free Apps / Web 2.0

February 15, 2018

Get Your News from RSS, not Social Media

In the article above, we see how bad actors are gaming the algorithms of Facebook and Twitter to spread disinformation. We have seen how the proliferation...

Blogging / Free Apps / Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Loop is Google Play Music on your Desktop

Free Apps / Web 2.0
November 12, 2016

Google Play Music is my favorite music streaming service — but running it in my main browser has some drawbacks. Luckily Loop has emerged...

Testing the H5P.org Twitter Widget

EdTech / HTML5 EdTech / TeacherHax / Web 2.0
November 7, 2016

I have long been a fan of the h5p.org project, a collection of open source learning objects written completely in HTML5 technologies to add...

Teachers & Admins: Protect Student Data with Strong Passwords

EdTech / Free Apps / TeacherHax / Web 2.0
October 31, 2016

As a system administrator, or even as a classroom teacher, you probably have several cloud app accounts that hold students’ names, grades, assignments, and...

Some Love for the Mozilla Web Literacy Standards

Competency Based Ed / EdTech / Featured / HTML5 EdTech / Web 2.0
April 6, 2016

I wanted to drop in a quick plug for familiarizing ourselves with the Mozilla Web Literacy Standards and 21st Century Skills. Though edtechies have lots of...

Good MF’ing Online Learning

Blogging / EdTech / HTML5 EdTech / Web 2.0
March 21, 2016

Every so often, I go visit this website for inspiration: MotherFuckingWebsite.com It starts with the text This is a motherfucking website. And it’s...

Could Gigabit Internet Lead to a More Decentralized Web?

TeacherHax / Web 2.0
February 10, 2016

The hosts of DTNS discuss Patrick’s newfound embarrassment of riches after moving to Finland, where he gets more home broadband bandwidth than he can use....