Against Dead Air in Education(al Multimedia)
In my first career, I was an AVID video editor and worked in Hollywood editing television shows for Paramount TV, MTV, E Entertainment, Lifetime,...
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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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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...
Digital Native Students are More Consumers than Creators
Embed from Getty Images OK, friends– it’s time to get over it. You might call young people “digital native students” but there are severe...
Black Menu for Chrome: All Your Google Tools At Your Fingertips
This week I discovered Black Menu for Chrome, an extension that lets you access any of your Google tools from a dropdown in the...
Don’t Hate the LMS, It Can Help Keep Our Focus on Learning
I’ve been noticing an interesting thread in online conversations recently, with people I respect either bashing or defending the LMS. Audrey Watters’ Beyond the...
Open Source Video Subtitles for Accessibility with Amara.org
Amara, formerly Universal Subtitles (which I thought was a better name) is an open source tool to let your audience contribute subtitles...
Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker for Enhanced Video eLearning in HTML5
Mozilla Popcorn Maker is a free tool for triggering rich web content to pop up as a web video plays. You can import a...
Teacher as Curator: Capture and Organize Learning Materials with Web 2.0 Tools
In the 21st Century world of abundant free educational content, teachers are challenged to shed the role of “content area expert” and adopt the...
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...
Managing Project-Based Learning in Trello: A Case Study
This is a reflection on the process for using Trello in Project-Based Learning that will hopefully help you decide if Trello is right for...
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