Video Killed the Radio Star – Using Media in Learning Experience Design
Nearly 2 years ago, we attempted to boil down the ocean by taking a “waffle house” approach to the research on multimedia learning by Mayer, Sweller, and others. As the …
KySTE Digital Transformations
For 2014, KySTE will be partnering with the University of Kentucky College of Education for the Fall Training Event. This year’s theme is Digital Transformation. Join me for the sessions …
Coding, a Foreign Language?
“In terms of cognitive advantages, learning a system of signs, symbols and rules used to communicate — that is, language study — improves thinking by challenging the brain to …
Coding Robots! at #ISTE13
For some unexpected reason, I was completely drawn to all makes and models of robots this year at #ISTE13. I mentioned in a tweet about Sparky from http://sparky.zacharypower.com. Sparky is an …
DOs & DON’Ts of Creating Flipped Classroom Video
This is a recently created video that is being added to an iTunes U Course myself and a few others are developing. The course is all about Digital & Blended …
Google Drive “Forms” Competition from Microsoft. Finally!
Whether it’s promoting participation in a Professional Learning opportunity or having people register for an event, I’m a huge user of Google Forms. It is a very quick way to …
A (Reluctant) iPad Convert
I have never been an Apple guy. I’ve never owned a Mac, always a PC. I’ve never owned an iPod, always some other .MP3 player (currently my non-iPhone smart phone …
Distributing Books Through iBooks Author (part 1)
Like many, I’ve dabbled a bit in iBooks author and if you’ve read several posts on this blog you’d also see that I’ve created some in Pages with ePub exports. …