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 your projects. I have written before how much I like using...
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.
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I’m very interested in how open source publishing tools like Wordpress can empower individuals to own their data, understand and learn from their tools, and protect against the strange encroachments of privacy and power that...
It’s no secret that people have a hard time critically evaluating technology. Our tiny mammalian brains are powerless to resist the charms of a thin, sleek, colorful bauble that promises to revolutionize the way we teach and learn.
Whether it’s iPads, eBooks, LMSes, Twitter, or Khan Academ...
If you are trying to create a branded online identity, it helps to have a consistent username across all of the major sites. With NameChk.com, you can search once and see if your favorite username is available on 159 different social media sites.
Just enter the username you want in the search ba...
This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place.…
This is a photo of my high school math teacher, Coach John Wa...
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”).
One essential part of human communities has always been a central meeting place– a location where the community comes to engage in conversations that are bigger than one‐on‐one interactions can offer. I call this space Th...
The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Prezi, and Rememberthemilk and the venerable Gmail– you can access powerful tools for free where...
Image by Tiago Daniel via Flickr
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!” ‑Thomas Alva Edison
“I discovered the meaning of life but I forgot to write it down.” ‑Hugh Gallagher
You know those times when you are struck with a brilliant, life‐altering, million‐dollar, save‐the‐worl...