Here are some various educational handouts and blog posts elsewhere I’ve created over the past year, in case you find any of them useful: Handouts / Google Docs: Resources for Teaching Elementary School Kids Coding and Robotics – as part…
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Teaching and Technology Related Handouts & Posts from the Last Year
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200+ Educational Google+ Communities
In January I compiled a list of education related Google+ communities in this Google document. I then added another 30 communities in May, bringing the list to over 80 Google+ communities now, which is copied below and ordered by their…
Considering MOOCs: Pros, Cons, Questions
Here are slides for a talk I’m giving to my university about issues to consider before offering MOOCs or accepting MOOCs for credit. Considering MOOCs: Pros, Cons, Questions from Doug Holton I also participated in a webinar about MOOCs for…
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What’s the “problem” with MOOCs?
In case the quotes didn’t clue you in, this post doesn’t argue against massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as the ones offered by Udacity, Coursera, and edX. I think they are very worthy ventures and will serve to progress our…
New Books on Teaching, HTML5
I can’t really provide reviews for these books, I haven’t read most of them yet (they are just lying in my 10 year old amazon saved items queue), but I thought I’d share the list for future reference: Some new…
ContentNotEditable: What the “death” of the mouse and keyboard means for content creators
First let me start with some disclaimers to try to make sure this post is not misinterpreted: I am not arguing that the mouse and keyboard are really dead or that the lack of a mouse on tablets is a…
Recent Course & Workshop Resources: HTML5, Drupal, Distance Education
Here are some web sites for courses I’m currently teaching or recently taught: Distance Education Tools – http://detools.wikispaces.com/ This site now has dozens of links of various tools and technologies you can use with online and blended learning Multimedia Development with…
Review of Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed
Since at least the invention of BASIC and Logo in the 1960s, people, such as Seymour Papert, have made an argument that anyone can and should learn to how to program, and even make their own software applications. The argument…
Does educational technology exist to make schools “hip” and placate taxpayers?
Larry Cuban argues that we only have new technologies in classrooms in order to placate (mostly non-parental) taxpayers and politicians, so that schools can seem “modern” and “with it.” Computers and so forth are just there as a status symbol,…
New Books on Learning & Technology
Some recent and upcoming books that caught my eye (haven’t read them yet). Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities – They’ve made a copy of Chapter 10: Action Notebook available online. “it summarizes dozens of practical steps you can take…
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