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...
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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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Designing Lessons for When You’re Not There
In college I had a writing teacher who stressed the point that Writing represents you when you’re not there. –Alberto Rios It was his...
Self-Paced Learning and the Psychic Load of Teaching
As we look at traditional education and try and explain how it got this way, one topic is so taboo that it rarely gets...
Professional Development Needs to Be Part of Life
One of the most frustrating things about Professional Development (for both teachers and trainers) is that it’s difficult to get teachers together, and then...
A Teacher’s Guide to Equal Access in the Age of BYOD, Web 2.0, and Mobile Computing
Classroom Responses Systems (AKA “clickers”) offer teachers and students a way to make classroom lectures more interactive and engaging than lectures alone. Eric Mazur,...
Reflections on Flipped Classroom after #CUEFlipTour
I just attended the Flipped Classroom conference yesterday and it gave me a chance to think carefully about how we might approach flipping instruction...
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