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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If Steve can do it, so can I!
For those of you in RSS land, I added an affiliate link which pays me 65 dollars each time someone uses it to sign up for Bluehost, which I happen to think is the best web hosting service out there. I know there’s another one that I’ve heard it a bit “dreamy”, but I think Bluehost’s service is pretty fantastic.
So if you’re looking for web hosting, think of me, would you?
Heh, wouldn’t recommend them if I didn’t think they were an incredible service! At this point, I’ve made enough from the affiliate link to have paid for about 5 years of hosting. Wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m making a profit from it, but it helps offset costs
[...] I said a while back that teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk was going to be an ad-free zone, but inspired by Chris Craft and my recent cheque from the Google Adsense programme for historyshareforum.com, I am going to [...]
Ok, if you can do it so can I… I used your affliate link and signed up today! My new address will be http://www.techforschool.org
Thanks Chris for putting the thought back in my head.
