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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I’ll spare you the it’s-been-crazy-with-the-school-year-ending apologies, but it’s been crazy around here. Heh.
Listen, I’ve been working on my presentation for NECC in the open source lab. It’s on Open Source Solutions for Student Blogging (or some catchy title like that).
I created a one-page comparison of Moodle, DrupalEd, WordPress and WordPress mu.
Take a look at it, would you? Help me proof it, see if there are errors, etc.
Thanks!
Chris
Nice, my favorite part is where you just wrote “Nope.” in one of the boxes.
My only constructive criticism is to make the blue backgrounds lighter so the black text is easier to read. It should also reproduce better with a lighter background.
Chris: here you go:
I checked for spelling errors-didn’t see any.
WordPress/Installation requirements box is done in serif font, all the rest of the blocks are in sans-serif. I’d change it to sans-serif.
DrupalEd/features block-has semi-colons after each bullet point. Other blocks have no punctuation, some have periods. Again, I’m looking for consistancy in all blocks.
The Nope comment is too informal for me for a presentation at NECC.
Minor things certainly, hope this helps. Have enjoyed your writing. See you at NECC.
David
If you’re including Moodle for its blogging feature, then I’d mention two things. FIrst, you can set visibility limits from the class to the site to the world FOr those who feel compelled to set visibility limits.
Second, one huge missing feature (IMHO) in Moodle is that there is no way to comment on blog posts.
Hi Chris
Totally just me — but I would make all the fonts in the boxes UNDER the softwares the same size — so one doesn’t seem to pop out more than the rest………but that is strictly cosmetic and desktop publishing.
Other than that — it is well done………….thanks for sharing.
Jen
Hi Chris
Wish I was goin’ to NECC!
No spelling errors that I saw. From a beginner’s point of view – very easy to understand document. Handy to look back at after presentation too.
Have fun at NECC – look forward to reading about it!
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