Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity
Image by flod via Flickr Everybody loves Firefox. Even with all the other fast, standards-compliant modern browsers out there (like Chrome, Safari, and Opera–...
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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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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...
Offline is the New Online
Image via CrunchBase Web 2.0 has beguiled us to forsake our old offline apps and turn to the online cloud for more and more...
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...
Give students feedback in 140 characters– save time!
I often procrastinate in giving students feedback because I end up writing each student a whole novel on their paper. This makes the task...
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...
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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