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...
Long before AI, it was my teaching philosophy that a teacher’s goal is not only to implant knowledge into learners’ brains, but to help them develop their own second brain – AKA a digital database of their learning journey that they can take with them beyond the walls of my classroom and the limit...
Our team maintains a library of basic research about eLearning vendors we’ve worked with, or may explore in future. Until now, these files were stored in Microsoft Office docs. When I was asked to review and revise them, I decided to convert them into a non‐linear, visual knowledge base using markdo...
I recently started planning a three‐day live training event with a colleague, in which we had to design several active lear...
Over the years I’ve been exploring Markdown as a content development tool, I’ve tried most of the Markdown editors available for Mac and Windows. In this article I’ll share my preferred editors aimed at different types of writers.
Markdown is very popular among two main au...
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...
A response to PowerPoint Remix Rant by Mike Caulfield.
Mike laments how the long list of specialized graphical tools in PowerPoint is a recipe for making Open Ed Resources that are next to impossible to reuse, remix, and repurpose to other contexts.
Most things work like this, unfortunat...
This video shows you how you can quickly convert a Markdown formatted presentation outline into an HTML5 presentation using Reveal.js. I think this method is a great way to familiarize yourself with web technologies while producing attractive and powerful presentations that work gr...