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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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SpanTube

Category : Educational Technology

If you haven’t caught me announcing this on Twitter, consider this the official announcement!

spantube
A few weeks ago, a couple of my students were joking that there was YouTube, and we needed our own video sharing site! We discussed it a bit and SpanTube was born.

Now, before you jump all over me for creating a new site when there are ample good video sharing sites out there, i.e. YouTube/Vimeo/TeacherTube/SchoolTube, etc, I do not claim to replace them nor compete with them. This is different.

The goal of this site is to invite Spanish teachers, Spanish speakers, and anyone else with an interest in teaching Spanish to register and upload videos.

I do not have any ads on the site, and I am paying for this myself. This is (as of right now) not a profitable site, nor is that really the intent. I just wanted to have a space to put all my students’ work in one spot where folks could come.

So please, stop by, register, and comment on some of my student videos. They’d love to hear from you!

And if you know  a Spanish teacher, maybe let them know? We welcome new videos.

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