“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...
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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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The Best of Both Worlds– Web Apps with Desktop Clients
The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter,...
Smart Dumb Phones: Cool Uses for Low Tech Cell Phones (NO iPhone REQUIRED!)
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...
Over-Extending your Firefox with Extensions? Use Different Firefox-Powered Browsers for Different Tasks!
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...
Turn student blogs into an online class community
Image by eyesplash Mikul via Flickr I have been interested in using blogging software to create online learning communities for a while now. This...
Is it OK to have student friends on Facebook? What do you think?
Image by dan taylor via Flickr What follows is an account of how I amassed a coterie of past and present students as friends...
Digg, StumbleUpon, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, and ShareThis
When you create a blog post that you want the world to see, social bookmarking sites are the way to attract new eyeballs to...
Social Networking: A Teacher’s Guide
A few years ago, one of my college buddies from back home told me to start a MySpace page, so I did. Before the...
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