Ted Curran Keynote Poem Project
Image via Wikipedia This is a motion graphics project I made to show my 11th graders this year. We were taking poems or songs...
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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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iPhone-style phone number hyperlinks in Firefox [Mac, Win, Linux]
One thing that grabs people’s attention when they get an iPhone is that phone numbers on websites automatically become hyperlinks. Click on a number,...
Opera Unite: A Web/Chat/FileSharing/etc. server IN YOUR BROWSER!
Image by Glztt via Flickr Opera Unite is an amazing service that allows you to run a web server right out of your own...
Turn student blogs into an online class community
Image by eyesplash Mikul via Flickr I have been interested in using blogging software to create online learning communities for a while now. This...
Bridge the Screen Divide: YuuGuu, Jaadu, and Chicken of the VNC
Image via Wikipedia Has this ever happened to you? <<<<<<<RING! RING!>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Me: Hello? Dad: Hi Ted. There’s a problem with the computer. All my...
Offline is the New Online
Image via CrunchBase Web 2.0 has beguiled us to forsake our old offline apps and turn to the online cloud for more and more...
Free Themed Fonts at TypeNow.net
http://typenow.net/themed.htm Image via Wikipedia THis is a great place for fonts that look like well known movie/band/ and video game fonts.
Is it OK to have student friends on Facebook? What do you think?
Image by dan taylor via Flickr What follows is an account of how I amassed a coterie of past and present students as friends...
Why All Teachers should be Bloggers, too.
Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr I have spent my whole teaching career in small, high tech charter schools, and I have seen...
Google Picasa- A Lovable Alternative to iPhoto
Image via CrunchBase I really like a lot of things about Apple‘s iPhoto— it makes it easy to rip, organize, and upload your pictures....
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