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Mozilla Popcorn Maker is a free tool for triggering rich web content to pop up as a web video plays. You can import a YouTube video, then add your own annotations, links, quizze...

Often, teachers approach me asking if they should be on Twitter. I use it and G+ to find and follow people who can teach me new things. As opposed to Facebook where I stay connected to my personal friends, Twitter and G+ are places to group around shared interests.

Let’s turn the question on i...

Education Technology Plan for the Diverse Ed. Institution

Many school leaders now recognize that students will need broad computer science skills to be competitive in the 21^st Century workforce. Adding an additional subject to an already crowded curriculum, though, may prove challenging to sch...

This is a method of constructing effective PowerPoint presentations in a way that helps your audience pay attention to you and understand your ideas more fully. With Attention Method, the slides are designed to add power, emphasis, and deeper understanding to your well‐scripted speech. You flip slid...

We've already discussed how great it is to make any website more readable with a simple bookmarklet. Take it to the next step by speed reading the text on any website using Squirt.io.

Click here to speed read this article!

This simple bookmarklet will reformat any page to a large, readable,...

5by5 | The Web Ahead #60: Web Annotations with Doug Schepers.

I have been listening to this episode of The Web Ahead that deals with annotations, or ways to leave comments on specific pieces of content across the web—even without the cooperation of the owner of the originating site. Like Hypot...

My previous post on using MOOC technology to Support Educators to Support Students generated quite a bit of interest, and I realized there was more to be said on the topic of using Community Managers in online education.  That post analyzes what MOOC providers like Udacity and Coursera are d...

If you make a lot of screencasts, tutorials, or documentation, you probably keep a keen eye out for any tool that can make your documentation better. Sometimes when a picture isn’t enough but a video is too much, you can take an animated GIF recording of your screen.

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5by5 | The Web Ahead.

I have recently discovered The Web Ahead and have been very impressed by the caliber of the guests speakers and the skill with which host Jen Simmons clarifies and humanizes the issues around web techn...