Social Networking: A Teacher’s Guide
A few years ago, one of my college buddies from back home told me to start a MySpace page, so I did. Before the...
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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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Work at a school that can’t afford fancy software? GO OPEN SOURCE!
I first became interested in open source software while working at an underfunded little charter startup in the central valley of California. We had...
Personalize your homepage with everything you need to see in one place!
I use iGoogle (formerly known as Google personalized home) as a way of seeing all of my important information in one place. I have...
Leave a voice message– get an email, text, or blog post!
If you prefer to think out loud, Jott might be your thing. After signing up with Jott, you can call their toll free number...
Clipping Part II: Clip-to-Blog
If you like the idea of clipping but your blog is where you want all your students to visit, you can use Clipmarks’ Clip-to-Blog...
Clipping websites is an easy way to save cool pages for your students to browse
I don’t know about you, but I do a lot of web research before presenting students with an idea or subject matter. I have...
Searchable Etexts Help Kids Search and Attribute Quotes
Image via Wikipedia In my literature classes, I found that one of the biggest challenges for students when they sit down to write a...
Get Gmail quality email & collab tools while keeping your school’s domain name
This year, I talked our charter organization’s IT master into switching all our (5) schools and the main office to Google Apps for your...
Make maintaining a class blog easier!
Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends,...
Google Docs: For groupwork, it rocks!
One of the most revolutionary new products that I’ve brought into my school this year is Google Docs. GDocs is an online office suite...
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