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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Category : General
I was over at Miguel’s blog reading about empanadas when I decided to leave a comment. I’ve always been a bit frustrated about Miguel’s use of Haloscan, but I survive.
Anyway, as I was leaving a comment about his empanada recipe I noticed the contextual ads above. Sheesh. I’m not losing weight eating empanadas!
I have bigger problems w/ contextual ads — it almost killed flat classroom — I cannot risk the ads that are placed. I do not have a problem w/ recommending specific products like through an amazon program (as I did last week), however, I will not do contextual ads. I’m in this to make a difference and although I’d like to make money too — I cannot do anything that would sacrifice my own reputation or name. And I will not have my name on something that I don’t personally approve of.
Many bloggers don’t see aproblem w/ Google Adsense, but like you, I do.