Reflecting on Reflection in Ed.
Image by lrargerich via Flickr In Jez’ e-Rambler blog, he meditates on the importance of reflection in education. Researchers have long known that reflection...
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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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What Good is Google Wave in Education?
Most people, after trying Google Wave, spend a good long time wondering why anyone would need this. The great Gina Trapani of Lifehacker.com has...
Lost Your Job? Stay Active! Blogging for Professional Development
Lost your job? Put down that remote and listen here! Burrowing a groove in your couch is not getting you any closer to that...
A Hack to Give Back: Hack Firefox to Donate to your Favorite Charity’s Amazon Store!
Image by kevindooley via Flickr Amazon.com‘s AStore Affiliate program pays charities if you search Amazon via a referrer link. In the spirit of giving,...
“Idea Catching”: Tools to Unite your “Inspiration” Mind and your “Perspiration” Mind
Image by Tiago Daniel via Flickr “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!” -Thomas Alva Edison “I discovered the meaning of life but I...
Jobseekers! Easy Job Multi-Searching with RSS Magic!
When you’re looking for work, keeping up with the online job listings is a job in itself. This tutorial will teach you how to...
GRUML: Google Reader on your Desktop
Image by Sue Waters via Flickr As you may have gathered from my defense of desktop email clients, I prefer desktop apps to webapps...
Thunderbird Don’t Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software
Image by adria.richards via Flickr As the blogosphere debates the death of the desktop email client, I am anxiously awaiting the stable release of...
Beast Bloggers Content Plan
Image by solbronumberone via Flickr This is a presentation I made to help my Beast Bloggers’ Support Group create a Content Plan for their...
Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity
Image by flod via Flickr Everybody loves Firefox. Even with all the other fast, standards-compliant modern browsers out there (like Chrome, Safari, and Opera–...
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