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...
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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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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...
Open Source Video Subtitles for Accessibility with Amara.org
Amara, formerly Universal Subtitles (which I thought was a better name) is an open source tool to let your audience contribute subtitles...
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...
Use Keynote or PowerPoint to Make App Mockups and Wireframes
If you’ve ever wanted to create an app for mobile, desktop, or the web, you might not know where to start. Creating interactive app...
Big Data Requires Big Compassion
A friend reminded me of the site Spurious Correlations, which shows absurd “relationships” between data that couldn’t possibly be related– though it’s fun to...
Referring Traffic to Your Blog via Social Media: The Network Matters
I am by no means an SEO expert, but I have learned a few tricks about driving meaningful traffic to my blog, TedCurran.net....
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....
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