“The Commons”: The Importance of Talking Out of Turn
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). One essential part of human communities has always been a central meeting...
Whenever we build a one-size-fits-all learning experience for all students to move through independently, we should think about how the learner will get personalized...
This post describes how I created a WebQuest using modern eLearning authoring tools, AI content generation, and streaming video.
We instructional designers are trained to think about learning objectives from the very beginning of a project, to design backwards from the outcomes we...
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). One essential part of human communities has always been a central meeting...
The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter,...
There’s no denying that the iPhone has become an amazing tool for taking your internet connected life mobile. However, many of its functions are...
Everyone loves Firefox because there are so many great user-created Add-Ons that make your web browser into much, much more. Add-ons allow you to...
Image by eyesplash Mikul via Flickr I have been interested in using blogging software to create online learning communities for a while now. This...
Image by dan taylor via Flickr What follows is an account of how I amassed a coterie of past and present students as friends...
When you create a blog post that you want the world to see, social bookmarking sites are the way to attract new eyeballs to...
A few years ago, one of my college buddies from back home told me to start a MySpace page, so I did. Before the...