Ted Curran.net

I had been wanting to re‐platform TedCurran.net onto a flat file CMS for a long time. As much as I love Wordpress, the security risks and slow load times of a database‐driven application have real downsides compared to a modern flat file CMS like Grav.

So when I woke up this morning and saw...

Hemingway is a markdown editor that coaches you to write more clearly, helping you to emulate Ernest Hemingway’s trademark sparse, journalistic style. Though I don’t use it as my main markdown editor, I’ve been thinking about ways it can be useful in a variety of learning tasks.

Once writin...

I have been evaluating Typora, a markdown editor for Mac (currently free while in beta). Its killer feature is a distraction‐free interface that allows you to type markdown syntax, but quickly hides it in a readable preview so you get more of a WYSIWYG experience.

I have been really enjoying t...

I’ve been using self‐hosted Wordpress for 6 years now, and I’ve experimented with several site plugins to add different features to my sites. This is a short list of the plugins and themes I keep coming back to year after year.

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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 beyond) to keep up with all our different circles of people. We use all different smartphone ap...

A longtime friend, colleague, and collaborator of mine who works in new teacher education is starting a blog, and asked me for some help on getting started. Here’s my email response…

Hi Friend, There’s s...

I am by no means an SEO expert, but I have learned a few tricks about driving meaningful traffic to my blog, TedCurran.net. This post outlines some of the tricks I use to average around 1500 hits a day on an education technology blog.

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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 21^st Century world of abundant free educational content, teachers are challe...

In recent years, the mainstream has largely gotten the message that learning to code is an essential 21^st Century skill. The many great free online courses that teach you to code make it easier than ever to build marketable skills in the computer language of your choice. However, there are man...

I’ve been blabbering on recently about #Markdown here on TedCurran.net, and I just managed to interest a roomful of seemingly sane people why putting weird characters all over your writing is a good idea. I’m taking this as a sign that people get it– we need to write for the web, not the deskt...