How to get your colours right when creating dual coding influenced resources
Making our resources clear and well presented is a key thing to help us when it comes to reducing cognitive load and supporting the ideas […]
Embrace Training in ED and HigherEd
I’m sure it happens to you. There you are at work, when you ask yourself, how would Plato handle it? What would Peter the Great […]
Kids Are Not Waiting For Us To Teach Them
Back in 2006, I was reintroduced to the concept that kids are not waiting around for the adults to...
Social Media a Double-Edged Sword for Students With Disabilities, Study Finds
Students with disabilities were more likely to be both victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying, according to a study from the Ruderman Family Foundation.
Unlocking the Gate to Better Learning
By LeiLani Cauthen To “ungate” in software is to allow a user to proceed to the next level or into a new section. In some […]
Boss Battles with Google Forms and Sheets - An Update
I spent most of the last summer creating Boss Battles for my gamified classroom. Throughout the school year, I also shared with you a couple […]
Embed a Live Google Slide into a Google Doc
This post falls under the "How did I not know this before" category... Over the last few days, I have been updating my 8th-grade waves […]
Engaging and Keeping the Attention of Students
This is my Week 2 post from our 'Don't Ditch That Tech' book study.-------------------------In "Don't Ditch That Tech", the authors state that "What we do […]
Go Karts and Ed Tech
When I was but a lad, there were several go kart tracks in Northeast El Paso. One was at a miniature...
How to Successfully Adopt New Technology in Higher Education
We’re all drowning in logins. So how do you get professors and students excited about another login? How do administrators get faculty and students to […]
Field Trips Live: Apple Campus in Cupertino, California
Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area was a place of quiet fruit orchards until sometime in the 1970s when the semiconductor industry took […]
Working from home / location independent working
It doesn’t matter what you call it, but the ability to ‘remote’ work is as much about the attitude of the individual as the attitude […]
