Teacher as Curator: Capture and Organize Learning Materials with Web 2.0 Tools
I’m excited to announce that this post is now featured in the curriculum of the eCampus Ontario Canada teacher micro-credentialing program! So glad that this content...
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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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Content Delivery Isn’t Instruction but it’s Still Important to Do Well
I religiously read Audrey Watters’ Hack Education blog, often finding that I agree with her in principle and then disagree about the details of...
Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs: How Service-Oriented Schools can Add Value in the Online Learning Boom
This past year has brought a massive amount of attention to Massive Open Online Courses, and much speculation about what they mean for traditional...
10 Reasons I’m Committed to Android in Education
I may be a zealot proponent for open source software, but I don’t think that clouds my judgement when I say that Android is...
How to Use Online Learning Tools to Increase Interaction and Improve Learning Outcomes
Promoting Interaction in Your Assignments – Broadband from Samuel Merritt U Academic Tech on Vimeo. Do you wish you could make one change...
Reflections on Flipped Classroom after #CUEFlipTour
I just attended the Flipped Classroom conference yesterday and it gave me a chance to think carefully about how we might approach flipping instruction...
Google Plus Puts the Social in Learning with Google Apps for Education
With the news that Google Apps for Education will be integrated with Google+ in a few days, it’s time to start thinking about how...
Free Tools, the Distorted Web, Privacy, and Your Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
Until I saw this TED talk, I didn’t care much that free Web 2.0 tools like Google and Facebook were collecting massive dossiers of...
Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing What You Know
In Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part I, you learned to find and organize information that will teach you, challenge your ideas, and help you...
Search Large Creative Commons Images from the Chrome Omnibar
When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons...
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