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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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Evoca and Skype – long lost friends reuniting?

Category : General

I just got this in my email inbox..maybe you did too?

We’ve got great news. Evoca has partnered with Skype to let you easily record Skype calls, and it’s free to try! As an Evoca member, you are all setup to record your Skype calls. You will find the recordings stored in your Evoca account. Record interviews, sales calls, project management meetings, podcasts, or simply record your calls with friends!

To get started, make sure to add your Skype username to your Evoca account here:

http://www.evoca.com/myaccount/phone_edit.jsp

Then, follow the simple instructions in the link below to get started:

http://www.evoca.com/skype

Singing along to the tune of Skype,

The Evoca Team
www.evoca.com

PS: If you are not yet familiar with Skype, it is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world. And even though the calls are free, they are really excellent quality. Learn more at www.skype.com.

Hmmm. Interesting. Looking at the evoca homepage, it shows this…

evoca_skype.png

So I am going to try it. I clicked the link to add the evoca contact, and it asked me for authorization in skype. I said yes, although it still shows the grey question mark. Odd.

A reminder that I am on a Mac and using Skype 2.6.something Beta somethingorother.

So I am going to start a conference call with Evoca and our trusty friend Echo123, whose voice changed recently I think.

skype_evoca2.png

So let’s see how this works…

Ahh, didn’t work because I didn’t have my skype username inputted into Evoca under My Account. It sent me a text chat explaining it. Nifty.

Ok so it worked nicely. I ended up having to call the Evoca contact first, because it takes a few extra seconds to connect, and you know the test call lady, she’s impatient. So I called the evoca contact and then added young miss echo123 into the conference call. I timed it nicely.

When I finished, it sent me a text chat message with the remaining time (it looks like you get 60 minutes free), download links, and the like.

Here is a link to the mp3 file of my quick conversation, please remember you hear me twice because I am saying it and then echo123 plays it back. She cut me off at the right moment, too. The file comes as an mp3.

skyperecording.mp3

A fun new tool! Maybe I will try a screencast-o-matic out on this one!

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