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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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Monday and the live chat with Peru

Category : General

Ok, no more cross posting. From here on out, I am going to update you on my flat class project on my other blog.

http://blog.thinkingaboutteaching.com

And not here. This blog is going to be about open source and open source stuff alone (well, mostly anyway)

Sorry if this sounds harsh. You needed some tough love.

I spent yesterday in Airplanes, didn’t sleep much last night, and the hotel coffee is mediocre. Nonetheless, I have a great big smile on my face and am thrilled to be alive! I am super excited about this video chat, I only wish I wasn’t out of town on the final school days leading up to it. There is so much to do!

Yeesh.

Go read about it on the other blog, then subscribe.

Thanks!

PS…Here’s what is in my batter’s box. No links just yet.

  1. Sakai
  2. 1videoconference
  3. Scuttle – maybe
  4. Markaboo – it’s a ruby on rails app, and I need to learn about those
  5. Twiki – got it working, it broke again. Sigh.

A working list, but a list nonetheless. What’s in your batter’s box?

Comments (1)

Oh, let me know how your work with Scuttle goes. I checked it out before Thanksgiving as a way to internalize all of my bookmarks. I’ve been using Jots for my online bookmarks, but there service is non-existent (can’t get anyone to answer an e-mail), and the search function is broken so I just have to remember what tag I used and go directly to that tag.

I was apprehensive about internalizing my bookmarks as I really appreciate having the social aspect of others using, seeing, and using the same tags as my bookmarks, but I’d also like more control over my own tagging and searching. That and I’m not sure how customizable Scuttle is, so I’d love an experts opinion :)




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