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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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Seeking a distance education interview subject

Category : Grad School

So who says higher education isn’t flexible? After a long chat with my prof via AIM chat (his preference, not mine!) we decided that as opposed to creating a bland presentation (read: Powerpoint file) as as response to a text chapter (found here http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/ch16.html) he said I could find someone who was involved in distance education (course designer, instructor, etc) and interview him or her.

Here are the requirements…

1. You’d have to read the chapter.

2. You’d have to let me interview you via Skype, preferrably video skype and record the conversation (with video, I hope!)

3. You’d have to let me publish it in my course and probably blog here just for kicks.

So, any takers?

Somebody?

Anybody?

Comments (6)

I’ll be interested… I’m starting a distance learning course on ICT provision in schools anyway and this looks like to might fit into my learning, and be useful to me anyway. What’s the time frame?

Time frame is pretty quick. Would you mind taking a look at the chapter I mentioned and see if it strikes you?

Will take a look, but having reread your post, you’re after facilitators and instructors, of which I am neither. I’m interested but probably not the guy you want.
Just entusiastic…

Happy to help. I’ve taught distance education courses for several years now and will be moving to a new university in August, focusing on using technology in teaching journalism and performance arts. One claim to fame — I was part of the team that formed North Carolina’s first accredited, fully DE, BA degree in communication. If you need more background, just let me know.

Choose ProfG, choose ProfG! I’m won’t be offended.:)

If ProfG doesn’t meet your needs, I’d be happy to help.

http://www.scottmcleod.net/contact




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