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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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Teachers & Admins: Protect Student Data with Strong Passwords
As a system administrator, or even as a classroom teacher, you probably have several cloud app accounts that hold students’ names, grades, assignments, and...
Always Know Where Your Towel (and File) Is
So after reading this guy’s rant about how terrible his experience with iTunes is, it reminded me of a big “I told you so”...
Rapid Prototyping Magic with Alfred Workflows
I attended my second hackathon this weekend, and my teammates were noticing all my keystroke magic tricks that help me quickly prototype professional-looking app...
Free Open Source User Feedback with AllOurIdeas
I have been researching open source user feedback tools, and I stumbled upon a very nice app called AllOurIdeas.org. The app takes a novel...
Use Keynote or PowerPoint to Make App Mockups and Wireframes
If you’ve ever wanted to create an app for mobile, desktop, or the web, you might not know where to start. Creating interactive app...
Project management with Hojoki: Creating Order from Chaos
Managing a project where your team has to use several different cloud apps to get work done can be extremely confusing. I discovered...
Teacher as Curator: Capture and Organize Learning Materials with Web 2.0 Tools
In the 21st Century world of abundant free educational content, teachers are challenged to shed the role of “content area expert” and adopt the...
Make my idea! JoyScreen: Browser plug-in for native performance in HTML5 apps
In many ways, it’s crazy that we have multiple competing app stores to deliver content that works perfectly well on the web. HTML5 has...
Top Android Apps for the Productive Teacher 2013
After reading a few end-of-year wrapups, I realized that I’ve never done a roundup of useful Android apps for productivity and education. This is...
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