What’s THE BIG PROBLEM in Edtech? Depends how you define it.
One thing I notice after following several edtech theorists for years is that we’re all creating solutions to different problems, calling that THE BIG...
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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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HTML5 Presentations from Markdown to Reveal.js
This video shows you how you can quickly convert a Markdown formatted presentation outline into an HTML5 presentation using Reveal.js. I think this method...
Does Your EdTech Fit You Like an Iron Man Suit?
One of the thrilling features of the Iron Man movies is the idea that Tony Stark can step into a mechanized robot suit and...
Digital Native Students are More Consumers than Creators
Embed from Getty Images OK, friends– it’s time to get over it. You might call young people “digital native students” but there are severe...
Teachers: Use ChromeCast for Wireless Presentations on Desktop and Mobile
As a teacher and frequent presenter, I always carry a MacBook Pro DVI to VGA adapter in my bag so I can connect to...
Open Source Video Subtitles for Accessibility with Amara.org
Amara, formerly Universal Subtitles (which I thought was a better name) is an open source tool to let your audience contribute subtitles...
Action-Oriented eLearning with the Humble WebQuest
One challenge about creating reusable eLearning content is that designers often fall back into the banking model of education, creating a passive and dependent learning...
Big Data Requires Big Compassion
A friend reminded me of the site Spurious Correlations, which shows absurd “relationships” between data that couldn’t possibly be related– though it’s fun to...
Referring Traffic to Your Blog via Social Media: The Network Matters
I am by no means an SEO expert, but I have learned a few tricks about driving meaningful traffic to my blog, TedCurran.net....
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...
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