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...
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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 10, 2023
The “Attention Method” for Effective Presentation Decks – Updated
This is an update to my previous post, The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations. My Attention Method™ of presentation design is a philosophy...
August 24, 2022
Microlearning is not a Platform, it’s a Design Choice
One frequent buzzword you’ll hear a lot in the eLearning world is “microlearning”. More often than not, it’s pushed by companies trying to sell...
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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...
What I Learned Helping a College Student Crowdfund Tuition
One of my former 12th grade Digital Design students has stayed in touch with me since his graduation in 2009, and he just asked...
The Changing Role of Faculty: From Traditional Ed to Competency Based Education
The role of the instructor has become ever more complex in the last century as technology, pedagogy, and student expectations have advanced with the...
Teaching For a Future Where Humans are Obsolete
One of the hardest things about teaching young students is actually envisioning the ways the world will be different when they’re ready to join...
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...
SMS, IM, OMG?!? Private Messaging Apps and Your Circle of Friends
Sending short text messages is one of the most popular ways to communicate with friends from your mobile device. It’s great because you don’t...
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