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Chris selected as K12OnlineConference keynote speaker Each year the K12OnlineConference provides tremendous professional development for free, and entirely online. This year, they have selected me as one of their keynote speakers. I am thrilled to have been chosen and look forward to participating in the conversation. Read the full post announcing all the keynote speakers here.

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Two quick links on Cognitive Load Theory I've been fielding lots of questions lately about Cognitive Load Theory. Here are two quick links that may be useful. First is an article talking about the practical implications of CLT on the design of learning. The second are some "recent" (as of 2003) developments regarding CLT. Happy reading! Update: I clarified the second...

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Practical advice on kids and Android app development After hearing about my students' success developing an Android app, I've gotten several emails asking for more details as to how I practically worked with my kids. Here are some pointers that I offered to the first person that emailed me, perhaps they are of some use to you. Please note that your mileage may vary. It's ok to not be...

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Publishing an App Inventor app to the Android Market As I mentioned earlier, my students and I published an Android app to the Android Market. See those links for more information on the background. This post is decidedly technical. First, once we finished the coding process, we packaged the app for to download to the computer. This is an option in App Inventor. This downloaded an .apk file....

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Designing and publishing an Android app with kids This post is designed to provide some context around how/why we decided to build this app. The more technical details of the code and how we published it will come in a future post. My students and I recently completed and published an Android app, and here's how we did it. First, the genesis for this goes back to a question I asked...

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Google acquires Jotspot…

Category : General

The Jot.com homepage has changed today. I have to admit, I didn’t see this one coming! I am excited about it, yet I wonder what the future holds. One thing I noticed from the FAQ page is that is will all be free.

We will no longer be billing customers for the use of the service.

Interesting. Sounds like a new link will be popping up next to the Docs & Spreadsheets link when I sign in! With Google beginning to forge a path into the education market, I almost wonder what affect (if any) this will have on Wikispaces.

Ok, so I will hold my predictions, since I am not as entrenched into the wiki market as others, but I do know a couple folks who won’t be happy with this since it will theoretically require a Google login. Privacy concerns? I’m not sure, but one thing is for certain, the wiki market just took a sharp turn.

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I actually started up a Wikispaces account after reading through your exhaustive review of various wiki tools. I’m glad that I did, because while I do love “the Google”, I’m much happier having my wiki experience hosted on a site non-google. Especially because I have the power to have the domain redirected to my own private domain if and when I need to (thinking about pointing it towards something on our school site).




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