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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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Apr

18

The WordPress Press It button I overlooked

Posted by cmcraft | Comments: (3)

Category : General

I can’t find the forum post right now, but credit goes to nlowell for bringing this to my attention.

At the bottom of the Write Post page of my self-hosted WordPress blog there is a button that looks like this…

pressitfirst.jpg

I never quite knew what it did and never gave any thought to figuring it out. When I wanted to post to my blog, I would simply type in the direct address to the admin interface and then click Write. It took a few minutes but I wasn’t worried.

Then after reading nlowell’s posting on one of Steve Hargadon’s Ning sites, I figured it out. I dragged it up to my blog’s toolbar and now there’s a button that looks like this…

blogtocrucialbutton.jpg

If I load up to a blank new tab in Firefox and click it, I get a blank new post to begin typing in…

If I am already on a page, I get a link to that page.

This might seem silly, but I’ve been blogging for almost a year and never paid it any mind, maybe you overlooked it too!

Comments (3)

Lynne Crowe said on 18-04-2007

Thanks for this tip Chris. I didn’t even know it was there. I have been using ScribeFire to send things I want to post but this button is even better.
Tom Turner said on 18-04-2007

Chris!

Thanks for the awesome heads up on this. I don’t think I’ve ever scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the page on my edublogs site. What a time saving tip this is.

Tom Turner
http://tnturner.edublogs.org
Christy Tucker said on 19-04-2007

Count me in the group of people who didn’t know about this either. Actually, I guess I had seen it there, but hadn’t tried it out.

Thanks for teaching me something new today!



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