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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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Gelato CMS – an open source tumble blog

Category : Software

Ok so call me behind the times, I didn’t know what a Tumble (b)log was.

Made popular by Tumblr, a tumble blog seems to be a bit like an extended version of twitter, in that it is a blog that is intended to house short bursts of text, quotes, pictures, videos, and the like. It’s not designed for long, drawn-out posts typically seen in most blogs (albeit not this one, much!)

I installed Gelato in minutes, once I realized I had one setting wrong. I am playing with it now. Find my installation at…ok so my install doesn’t work, although I was able to see the inside workings. It seems fun, but I do a bit of this now, so no need to duplicate. Maybe good for kids, though, not sure. You decide.

Link: gelato cms

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