As a system administrator, or even as a classroom teacher, you probably have several cloud app accounts that hold students’ names, grades, assignments, and communications. How many of these accounts do you protect with a strong password? How many of your passwords give you control over the systems...
I’ve long been a believer that teachers should explore open source edtech tools as an alternative to all the free, freemium, ad‐supported, and privacy‐invading web applications that are marketed to us. In addition to all the great open source desktop applications, there are a lot of open alternati...
So after reading this guy’s rant about how terrible his experience with iTunes is, it reminded me of a big “I told you so” that I want to share. While your apps would like you to think of your music, movies, and documents as being theirs, they’re really yours, and you should always know where...
I attended my second hackathon this weekend, and my teammates were noticing all my keystroke magic tricks that help me quickly prototype professional‐looking app mockups with remarkable speed. A teammate asked me what my secrets are, and so I decided to share it as a post.
My keystroke magic is...
I have been researching open source user feedback tools, and I stumbled upon a very nice app called AllOurIdeas.org. The app takes a novel approach to user feedback, allowing your audience to choose between two suggested answers that you “pre‐seed” into the survey. This is great if you have alre...
If you’ve ever wanted to create an app for mobile, desktop, or the web, you might not know where to start. Creating interactive app mockups can help you explain your idea more clearly to collaborators, designers, developers, and investors. You could spend time and money mastering a specialized t...
Managing a project where your team has to use several different cloud apps to get work done can be extremely confusing. I discovered this great app called Hojoki that binds all these various tools together into one coherent workspace so you can see...
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 is valuable to a new generation of teachers!
In the 21st Century world of abundant free educational content, teachers are challe...
In many ways, it’s crazy that we have multiple competing app stores to deliver content that works perfectly well on the web.
HTML5 has emerged as a great platform for rich applications on desktop and mobile devices, handling several features...
After reading a few end‐of‐year wrapups, I realized that I’ve never done a roundup of useful Android apps for productivity and education. This is a list of the very best of the best apps I use on Android to stay productive, connected, and collaborative on the go.