The ‘Angry Birds’ Guide to Online Lesson Design
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). A popular reason for exploring gamification in online learning is because we...
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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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Take and Annotate Screenshots with Open Source Tools: ZScreen and Paint.net
Online teachers and instructional designers need access to good tools for capturing screenshots and annotating them. These tools are invaluable for giving step-by-step computer...
“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...
Lost Your Job? Stay Active! Blogging for Professional Development
Lost your job? Put down that remote and listen here! Burrowing a groove in your couch is not getting you any closer to that...
Beast Bloggers Content Plan
Image by solbronumberone via Flickr This is a presentation I made to help my Beast Bloggers’ Support Group create a Content Plan for their...
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...
Student Blogging= Easy Grading, Authentic Feedback and Review
This semester, I had all of the students in my digital design class start a blog on either Blogger or Tumblr (.com) where they...
Have students RECORD key assignments as MP3s so you can listen, not read.
As an English teacher, I always felt like I was drowning in a sea of papers. I needed to get the students to do...
Icebreakers
Nothing keeps up class morale than silly games. Usually, I do these at the beginning of the year to help get to know the...
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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