#ELI5 Explain Like I’m Five: Making Student Learning Explicit, Simple
You may remember my previous post about using Reddit’s #TIL (Today I Learned) hashtag as a tool for metacognition, similar to an “exit ticket”....
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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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Make My Idea: Open Stock Images with the Power of the Crowd
Sometimes in life, you just need a cheezy image of four ethnically diverse people in business attire in a boardroom smiling. You could buy a stock...
Professional Development Needs to Be Part of Life
One of the most frustrating things about Professional Development (for both teachers and trainers) is that it’s difficult to get teachers together, and then...
Project management with Hojoki: Creating Order from Chaos
Managing a project where your team has to use several different cloud apps to get work done can be extremely confusing. I discovered...
Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker for Enhanced Video eLearning in HTML5
Mozilla Popcorn Maker is a free tool for triggering rich web content to pop up as a web video plays. You can import a...
How do you stay current in your field?
Often, teachers approach me asking if they should be on Twitter. I use it and G+ to find and follow people who can teach...
The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations
This is a method of constructing effective PowerPoint presentations in a way that helps your audience pay attention to you and understand your ideas...
Speed Read any Site with Squirt.io
We’ve already discussed how great it is to make any website more readable with a simple bookmarklet. Take it to the next step by...
Collaboratively Annotate Websites the Open Web Way
5by5 | The Web Ahead #60: Web Annotations with Doug Schepers. I have been listening to this episode of The Web Ahead that...
Community Managers in Online Education
My previous post on using MOOC technology to Support Educators to Support Students generated quite a bit of interest, and I realized there was more...
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