WordPress in Education: A Scaffolded Plan for Tech Development in Grades 7-12
Education Technology Plan for the Diverse Ed. Institution Many school leaders now recognize that students will need broad computer science skills to be competitive...
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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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Hemingway Editor Helps Students and Teachers Write for Clarity
Hemingway is a markdown editor that coaches you to write more clearly, helping you to emulate Ernest Hemingway‘s trademark sparse, journalistic style. Though...
Sandstorm.io for Teachers | Presentations
I’ve long been a believer that teachers should explore open source edtech tools as an alternative to all the free, freemium, ad-supported, and privacy-invading...
Java-based Edtech Tools Pose Security Risk
I was just discussing free screencasting tools with some fellow Instructional Designers, and realizing how many of the most commonly-used apps like Screencast-O-Matic are...
Good MF’ing Online Learning
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...
How I Stay Up on EdTech Tools
This post started life as a response to a question on Reddit and grew into a far-reaching manifesto on my approach to staying current...
Work Like a Web Writer: Adding Web UI Elements to Improve your Documents
I have been exploring what it would look like to write for the web instead of the desktop, by creating documents in Markdown and...
Basic HTML for Complex People
Most of us don’t need to know HTML, but we all write on the web, so we’re using HTML whether we understand it or not. Knowing a few simple tricks will save you from some common frustrations and help you organize your online writing more clearly.
The workshop should be a painless way to learn a little bit more about what your text editor is doing “under the hood.”
This guide will give you a simplified look at only the HTML tags, styles, and syntax that you can do in a visual text editor (or “WYSIWYG” editor) like the ones in webmail, blogs, and LMSes. It’s not intended to be a complete education in HTML, but rather a commonsense guide for everyday users who want to get more out of their online writing.
Why Write for Paper? Or ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love HTML’
I’ve been blabbering on recently about #Markdown here on TedCurran.net, and I just managed to interest a roomful of seemingly sane people why putting...