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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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A few recent bug fixes, are you having these problems?

Category : Educational Technology, General

I’ve been having a few issues recently that I’ve been able to fix in the wee hours of the morning and I wanted to share the fixes with you in case you’re having any of these problems.

1. FoxMarks wouldn’t synchronize when I upgraded to FoxMarks 2.0.34.

Solution: I had to upgrade to 2.0.36 and then change the auto proxy settings for Firefox. It had to be set to Direct Internet connection. I also had to find the download by going to FoxMarks.com and seeing the link to the wiki.

2. WordPress quit sending comment notifications following upgrade to 2.3.1. I upgraded to 2.3.2.

Solution: It turns out that I had to enable a forwarding email address in the form of wordpress @ myblogaddress.com and forward it on to my gmail acccount. There was a change in there somewhere that caused this.

Maybe this doesn’t affect you, but maybe it does. If this helps, well, good.

Chris




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