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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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IRC Channel needed

Category : General

Ok so I’ve been working on this edublogosphere.com idea. A nice friendly chat room where folks can drop in when they feel like it, chatcast away and have lots of space in which to do it, and from a variety of platforms, etc.

I’m looking at IRC, since it’s such a darned established network already, and has years of goodness behind it. I’ve got one heck of a sexy web-based IRC client that I’ve been working through, and the developer (who lives in Kyev, Ukraine!!) has been great to talk with.

I don’t have the skillz to be a channel op, so I’m looking for a channel to use. Do any of you know of a channel that wouldn’t mind this type of traffic but at the same time would protect our sensibilities? I’d need one that’s safe for work, and so forth.

The cool thing is you’ll be able to interact from a traditional IRC client (colloquy, mIRC, etc) or through the web. It looks promising, open, and happy.

Now I just need a channel, any help there?

- Chris

Comments (2)

Hey, we can set you up with something, we’d give you channel op, but teach you how to maintain/help you maintain the channel. Come join us @ irc.cyberarmy.net in #help, look for me (ranok).

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