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
Tagged with: edtech, education, opensource, teaching
Posted in children, edtech, education, embodiment, games, learning sciences, opensource, simulations, software, teaching, technology
Posted in children, edtech, education, embodiment, games, learning sciences, opensource, simulations, software, teaching, technology
Fixing Calculus Courses
After doing midterm semester surveys and observations in several calculus courses, I compiled a list of suggested resources and strategies for improving student performance in calculus. I also posted this to the POD list along with a little more background on…
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…
Developing Interactive, Scalable HTML5 Apps on the Cheap: Serverless, Unhosted, No Backend, BAAS, PAAS, Oh My
I’ve written before how HTML5 is the platform of the future for developing interactive educational apps, and you can even develop (code) in your browser (or chromebook) now. Well, the future is here, and HTML5 is still looking to be the best…
Tagged with: html5, opensource
Posted in drupal, html5, opensource, programming, software, technology
Posted in drupal, html5, opensource, programming, software, technology
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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Posted in edtech, education, moocs, opensource, teaching, technology, Uncategorized
Posted in edtech, education, moocs, opensource, teaching, technology, Uncategorized
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…
Android Tips, Open Source, Educational Apps
Like I mentioned in the previous post, the CES show next week promises to reveal a slew of new android tablets and phones, so we’ll see what is announced (and what is actually released). Here are some android tips &…
Upcoming Android Tablets – Wait and See
For a couple of projects, I’m looking into tablets that students can use for taking notes and so forth. There are finally some android tablets out already or coming out this month. This google doc I created has some notes…
Posted in android, technology
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…
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