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Trying to balance the ed with the tech

May 17, 2012
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Google Docs adds search to documents

I opened up a new Google Doc this morning and was greeted with a new Google Docs feature called Research. Use this research tool to learn more information about the topics in your document. Well now, this looks interesting. And … Continue reading

March 5, 2012
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New like e-textbook new?

I started writing a comment on George’s spot post Connected Learning: What have they done with Alec, Will, Vicki?, prompted by the announcement coming out of the DML conference in San Francisco of a “new” learning model called connected learning. I … Continue reading

March 5, 2012
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Publishing my thesis with WordPress and Digress.it – Part 2

I’m working on publishing my thesis on this site using WordPress and the Digress.it plugin. This is part 2. You can read about how I configured WordPress to run a second blog on a sub-domain and set up Digress.it in … Continue reading

March 3, 2012
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Publishing my thesis with WordPress and Digress.it – Part 1

This is part 1 of a many part process & is just the beginning of this little project. There will be more posts in the coming days as I get my thesis site launched. If you go there, you will … Continue reading

January 23, 2012
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Trends that will impact education in the next 5 years

My colleague at BCIT in Vancouver, Kyle Hunter, recently asked the following question: Here is my video response. After I did the video I felt like singing that old Sesame Street song “one of these things is not like the … Continue reading

January 4, 2012
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The value of Android

As I read about the low cost tablets popping up in India like the $140 Classmate and the $45 Akash, I can’t help but wonder, would these low cost tablets exist if it were not for Google and their open … Continue reading

December 14, 2011
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Universal Instructional Design Principles for Moodle

Universal Instructional Design is the design principle that instruction should be designed not for the average student, but rather for a broad range of students “with respect to ability, disability, age, reading level, learning style, native language, race, ethnicity, and … Continue reading

December 6, 2011
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Moodle 2.2 – now with more mobile goodness

Moodle 2.2 has been released, and along with some new features (like rubrics and some tools to make getting content and tools into Moodle from other systems easier) comes an improvement to the Moodle mobile app. When I last looked … Continue reading

December 4, 2011
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Skype as disruptive educational technology

I realized something tonight as I read the story of how Virginia Tech professor John Boyer landed a Skype interview for his World Regions class with Aung Sun Suu Kyi, leader of the democratic movement in Burma – I don’t … Continue reading

September 21, 2011
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If This Then That Automates Simple Web Tasks

I don’t blog much these days about new web services or tools that I discover (if you are interested in what I find in terms of cool tools then you can connect with me on Diigo where most of the … Continue reading