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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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Feedity – Create RSS Feeds from sites without one

Category : Feeds

This is a cool tool if I’ve ever seen one…

Since I’m such a darn geek, I like to keep track of my University’s IT Bulletin, which does not have an RSS feed. I’ll admit, I cannot understand why not given the size of my school, but hey.

So here is the original page…

http://uts.sc.edu/itbulletin/

Fairly straightforward, easy enough to read, and now you know where I go to grad school!

Thanks to CybernetNews I found this really great new tool called Feedity that takes any web site without RSS and makes it all RSS’ey and tasty!

I zipped over to it, pasted in the URL and voila, I had a new RSS feed and there was even a convenient little drop down box to allow me to subscribe with Bloglines (my favorite little aggregator).

Cool. I’ll have to let you know how updates work…

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Comments (3)

[...] Christopher Craft This is a cool tool if I’ve ever seen one… [...]

There’s a number of these sites out there at the mo. I’ve had good results from http://feed43.com but probably the most interesting is http://dapper.net which works graphically. Very clever.

[...] necesitaba agregar los avisos de un sitio que no ofrecía RSS. Fue así que encontré en Google un post sobre Feedity, esta es una aplicación web que permite monitorear las novedades de un sitio “creando” [...]




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