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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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Hacking up the new theme

Category : General

I think the changes I have made since yesterday’s implementation will go further for usability, although there are a couple things I can’t figure out. Here’s what I have done.

First, I hacked up the sidebar, and removed the old manually edited links section and added my bloglines aggregator so if I change it in bloglines, it automatically updates here. Then I added some preferred meta that I like. Of course, I had to place the obligatory wikispaces link.

Next, I just read Ben’s comment so I hacked up a little more. Now there is an additional comment link at the end of each post. Not to mention I had to add my own plugins, the edbloggernews submit and and the edublogosphere submit plugin. I should test to see if they work! Hmmm…

What I cannot figure out is how to add some padding after each of the line items in an ordered list. For example, look at my five things meme post and look how jumbled it looks since there’s no spacing. I tried manually adding
‘s after each line but no dice. I emailed the theme author, we’ll see if he responds. In the meantime, anyone know how to do this in CSS? I don’t see anywhere where ordered lists are defined, that’s the odd part. Unordered lists have a padding below them, at least according to the file. Maybe I need to add a definition for the ordered list.

I am no designer.

So thanks for the help with the new theme!

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Love the new theme – seems like the blogroll is indented one two many. Other than that, very slick.

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