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.
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...
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...
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....
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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Category : General
I wish OpenAcademic would hurry up.
I say that partly in jest, but partly for real. They are working on solutions that I am really looking forward to trying out. I am not savvy enough to figure out the details of OpenID, but it may be possible to link my Drupal user authentication and Moodle authentication. Obviously I would want Drupal to pull from Moodle, but not vice versa.
I should learn more. Maybe I can figure this out. We’ll see!
I’m currently working on expanding the open source tools for doing data exchange using the Schools Interoperability Framework. This is potentially a more general solution to this problem, although it will still take some development effort to SIF-enable various open source applications.
Hello, Chris,
RE: “I wish OpenAcademic would hurry up.” — Me too
All kidding aside, we’re getting there — Part of the reason that we are moving slowly is that we want to make sure we get it right —
And, by “getting it right” I mean making sure we have a system that is easy to install, intuitive to use, and will scale easily for both the individual user/school and collaboration between multiple schools.
It’s a broad target, but we want to be sure that the tools we develop don’t exclude the smaller players who might not have access to a well-funded technology infrastructure.
So, sorry about the wait, but it is drawing to a close — trust me.