“29 Ways WordPress Is Taking Over Universities and Higher Ed” http://feedly.com/k/16oSRtH
I’m very interested in how open source publishing tools like Wordpress can empower individuals to own their data, understand and learn from their tools, and protect against the strange encroachments of privacy and power that...
80 percent of U.S. adults face near‐poverty, unemployment, survey finds – CBS News.
As a society and an economy, we went from agrarian self‐reliance to industrial inter‐dependence over the last 100 years– during a time wh...
iOS vs. Android: Your Best Arguments.
A good summary of the good and not‐so‐good about both iOS and Android. I’d argue that some of the stated downsides of Android are really only a problem on non‐Nexus phones from 3rd party manufacturers. My Nexus 4 and 10 came with no bloatware and are not la...
Classroom Responses Systems (AKA “clickers”) offer teachers and students a way to make classroom lectures more interactive and engaging than lectures alone. Eric Mazur, Derek Bruff and others have pioneered ways to use classroom response cli...
I may be a zealot proponent for open source software, but I don’t think that clouds my judgement when I say that Android is a great platform for education. Whether you’re using it for simple reading, writing, and multimedia or digging into the more...
Promoting Interaction in Your Assignments – Broadband from Samuel Merritt U Academic Tech on Vimeo.
Do you wish you could make one change in your course that would increase student engagement and boost your course evaluations? Research shows that courses with high rates of in...
Google fonts are amazing. It’s a huge library of free, open‐licensed fonts that give web designers a huge new palette to work with, going beyond the same old tired “web safe” fonts. (Look around! I use them extensively on TedCurran.net. Nice, huh?) They’re hosted on Google’s servers and can be add...
_I was recently asked to email a friend‐of‐a‐friend, a librarian who was asked to do some Instructional Design in Canvas LMS. I’m reprinting my response in case it can benefit any other education/information p...