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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For those of you reading this in a newsreader, do me a favor and actually go look at the site. I changed themes and am curious to see if you like it.
I am hunting down a roughly 100 x 50 cool iTunes graphic I’ve seen, it’s the purplish waves radiating from the center. I’d like to use it as my podcast subscribe link, but can’t seem to find the graphic. Perhaps tomorrow will yield better results.
Thank you for your faithfulness to me!
looks great!
I like the Mediawiki style links with the little arrow icon, and the banner image is nice and soothing. I was a bit thrown off by the comment link being at the top of the post and not the bottom. Not a huge issue, just something I noticed after reading one of your earlier, lengthier posts, and then searching around for the comments link.
The text is too small for me. I would improve the contrast for the “tabbed” links at the top.
Don’t forget us old fogies with bi-focals! I can’t do .8 ems anymore! Of course, I did to the wheelie thing with the mouse to magnify and the liquid layout adjusts. But I like to have the text a bit larger upon initial presentation.
Neat! I like it.
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