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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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May

11

Advanced WYSIWYG editor for WordPress

Posted by cmcraft | Comment: (1)

Category : General

Great tip from Doug Belshaw about the advanced WYSIWYG editor in WordPress 2.1. I wasn’t aware of this until reading it on Doug’s always great blog. Here’s Doug:

A quick tip for those who use the excellent WordPress to power their blogs: pressing a combination of buttons can make your WYSIWYG editor display another row of icons, giving greater ease-of-use and functionality. If you’re using Firefox on Windows, it’s Alt+Shift+V; for Internet Explorer on Windows it’s Alt+V; for Firefox on the Mac it’s Ctrl-V; unfortunately it doesn’t work on Safari…

via Doug Belshaw via justsome…

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Ben said on 11-05-2007

OMG! That’s totally awesome! Yet one more little gem about WordPress that I had no idea was hiding there! I can’t wait to use the “Clean up Code” button in the hidden row of tools. Too much copying and pasting from various sites and programs leaves a huge mess :)




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