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POSSE: Why Your Blog Should Be the Center of Your Digital Life

December 9, 2014 July 23, 2018

The Social Media Status Quo is Broken Most people and businesses maintain several social media profiles, flitting from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram to LinkedIn (and beyond) to keep up with all our different circles of people. We use all different smartphone apps because each little tool does one thing better than the others. As …

EdTech, Featured

Competency Based Education Q&A Hangout for the Online Learning Consortium

November 17, 2014 April 21, 2015

Can you share with us a high level overview of Competency Based Learning? The big, big, big picture overview is best illustrated by a quote from Sal Khan, creator of Khan Academy. the problem with the current educational system is that the time spent teaching one subject is fixed, and …

EdTech

Does Your EdTech Fit You Like an Iron Man Suit?

November 13, 2014 February 24, 2015

One of the thrilling features of the Iron Man movies is the idea that Tony Stark can step into a mechanized robot suit and control it as if he were just moving his body naturally. The suit is expertly designed to understand his movements in real time and seamlessly amplify them to …

EdTech, Free Apps

Choose Multi-Platform Apps for Inclusive Collaboration

October 27, 2014 October 27, 2014

JR Raphael of Computer world just published an excellent slideshow featuring 20 great productivity apps for Android, iOS, and the Web. Unsurprisingly, it reads like a list of Ted’s favorite go-to app recommendations for teachers, students, and web collaborators. Here’s why: Use Tools that Include Everyone When you’re preparing to …

EdTech

October 25, 2014 October 25, 2014

Using Markdown In WordPress http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/using-markdown-in-wordpress

EdTech, Featured

Disrupting Education: Cost or Quality?

October 23, 2014 November 11, 2014

In response to When Uber and Airbnb Meet the Real World. A friend got me thinking about how Uber and AirBnB insinuate themselves into an existing “meatspace” industry, only to undo worker protections and government regulations in that industry. This got me thinking about the ambiguity many of us feel as education warily …

EdTech, Featured, TeacherHax

Digital Native Students are More Consumers than Creators

October 15, 2014 October 15, 2014

OK, friends– it’s time to get over it. You might call young people “digital native students” but there are severe limits to their ability to turn that geekdom into real learning. The persistent myth of modern digital native students connotes for many that millennial students have a natural fluency with digital …

Free Apps, TeacherHax, Web 2.0

Black Menu for Chrome: All Your Google Tools At Your Fingertips

September 17, 2014 September 17, 2014

This week I discovered Black Menu for Chrome, an extension that lets you access any of your Google tools from a dropdown in the browser. You can invoke it with a keystroke and quickly navigate to the tool you need. I’m finding this is a huge improvement over my regular …

EdTech, Featured, TeacherHax, Web 2.0

Don’t Hate the LMS, It Can Help Keep Our Focus on Learning

September 17, 2014 October 28, 2016

I’ve been noticing an interesting thread in online conversations recently, with people I respect either bashing or defending the LMS. Audrey Watters’ Beyond the LMS seems to suggest they’re a sinister tool of imperial control, Jim Groom and Brian Lamb offer five arguments against the LMS, and Jeremy B Williams’ post implies …

AndroidEdu, TeacherHax, Web 2.0

Automatically Mute Your Phone at School or Work with IFTTT.com

August 29, 2014 August 29, 2014

You know that moment when the room is quiet and everyone is calmly focused on a speaker– and then someone’s annoying ringtone goes off right in the middle, shattering the silence and attracting unwanted attention? Don’t be that doofus. I created a couple of IFTTT recipes to save the sanity …