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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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KompoZer – a release of Nvu without the bugs

Category : Software

I had been a little frustrated with Nvu of late. Now I don’t do a whole heck of a lot of web design these days. If I am looking at code, it is probably within the context of a content management system. I may hack a sidebar here, or call a function there, but long gone are my days of staring at a blank notepad screen typing out html code. I am glad I have that experience, as it helps me put together quick and dirty pages when all I need to do is embed a quick tutorial video. Heck, Google video did the encoding code for me, so all I did is wrap it in html, title, and body tags, center it up and I was golden.

When I was working on my new entry portal to be used when folks want to find me (yikes!) I naturally turned away from those evil proprietary softwares (which I really just don’t own ;) and looked for an open source solution. Along came, Nvu, a solid WYSIWYG based editor. Except it is a little frustrating due to a couple minor bugs.

Enter KompoZer. They bill themselves as “Nvu’s unofficial bug-fix release”. KompoZer is available for all three platforms. Enjoy (mostly) bug-free web editing!

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