eLearning Branching Scenarios can Learn from Choose Your Own Adventure Stories
I was lucky enough to grow up during the 1980s heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure stories, a low-tech precursor to the electronic branching...
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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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iOS is Cool but Android is Better — Fight Me!
I tried to get into Apple’s iPhone after years as a happy Android user, but even in 2022 there are significant areas where the...
Collaborate via Wiki for a Web-Native Content Development Process
Using a wiki as a collaboration space for a web-native content development process with subject matter experts.
Sandstorm.io for Teachers | Presentations
I’ve long been a believer that teachers should explore open source edtech tools as an alternative to all the free, freemium, ad-supported, and privacy-invading...
Open Broadcaster Software — The Only Screencasting App You’ll Ever Need
One of the most valuable tools for an instructional designer is a great screencasting app. Being able to record your desktop with voice narration...
What WordPress Jetpack can Teach Instructure Canvas
Instructure Canvas is the new hotness in the LMS market, but for many it remains out of reach. For many schools who need an...
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...
When BitTorrent Sync is the Right EdTech Tool
You can think of BitTorrent Sync as “Dropbox without the Cloud”. Not to be confused with the underlying technology of BitTorrent, this is a...
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...
POSSE: Why Your Blog Should Be the Center of Your Digital Life
http://gty.im/162890895 The Social Media Status Quo is Broken Most people and businesses maintain several social media profiles, flitting from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram to LinkedIn (and...
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