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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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Is Gcast dead?

Category : General

I just tried logging into my Gcast account and it doesn’t work. It has recognized me for the last year or so and now asks me to register. When I try to register I get a nasty database error.

This is really bad news for me, I have LOTS of podcasts, student work, etc in those archives. I could re-create it but that would be a pain.

Can you try your Gcast account and see if it’s just me? I sent an email to support, not sure if they’ll respond.

Did I put too many eggs in a free basket?

Update: I got to school this morning and it works fine. I know it’s not just a login error because it even failed to recognize the phone number when I called. Yesterday I called the number and it asked for the number with which I registered, which it had never done before. Today it answered me like an old friend.

Definitely an issue on their end, but glad everything is back to normal. In that short time I realized how much I depened on Gcast and love the service! Gcast, are you listening?

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I got right in. Can’t be good news for you, however. I hope you get in!

Its not a good service, I have tried for the last 5 days to get my audio uploaded, and lost some files too. Since last Friday nothing has worked at all with my GCast account, I tried emailing them and not a single response, in 5 days!!!

There’s nothing on the site that indicates that something is going on, working on the site or what have you. I guess their priorities are not with the users of the service.

GCast in my opinion really reallty SUCKS !!!!

The service is free, so I guess I got what I paid for.

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