Alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram 2021
Exploring the best alternatives to mainstream social networks to free yourself from the Zuckerverse.
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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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Free your Facebook Contacts with Friends to Gmail
Over the years, the big social networks Facebook and Twitter have quietly removed your ability to export your contacts out of their systems....
Secure Your Social Identity Across All Sites with NameChk.com
If you are trying to create a branded online identity, it helps to have a consistent username across all of the major sites. With...
“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...
“Idea Catching”: Tools to Unite your “Inspiration” Mind and your “Perspiration” Mind
Image by Tiago Daniel via Flickr “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!” -Thomas Alva Edison “I discovered the meaning of life but I...
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...
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