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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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Podcast Episode 10 – The obligatory show

Category : General

I’ve been listening to podcasts for some time now. They seem to fall into one of a few categories. The first category is the one with Educational consultants, folks who present, write, and listen to this stuff for a living. Podcasts/Netcasts/Webcasts seem to come with regularlty and come often. One might posit that it is good or business, another might posit that we teachers need a steady flow of information from those that sit in the watchtowers.

The second category are podcasts from teachers, intending to share what they know or how they feel about a particular topic. These shows seem to start strong, and then eventually fall by the wayside. Then, on a stroke of feeling guilty, the show’s creator does another good show, and mentions how he or she will try hard to do better in the future.

I have been debating the future of the open source classroom dot com podcast simply because life got in the way. If you’ve read my blog, especially my post about the nature of relationships, you’ll see that my God is my first responsibility, followed by my family, and then comes the rest of this fun stuff. That’s why I am writing this before the sun has even peeked out of it’s slumber.

So I have come up with a new format. Hear it in this episode. Like it? Comment. Something I can do to improve it? Tell me in the comments.

Thanks for being faithfully here with me, I appreciate you all very much!

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Sounds good to me – In my experience, listeners are willing to forgive lower quality recordings for podcasts.

Of course, now that you’re willing to podcast in the car you might just find yourself recording much more often. :)




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