The open source writing tool Twine bills itself as an “Interactive Fiction” authoring program – a way for people to make text‐based choose‐your‐own‐adventure games and post them online. In fact, there is a vibrant community of writers who create their own branching fiction stories for others t...
Google Play Music is my favorite music streaming service – but running it in my main browser has some drawbacks. Luckily Loop has emerged as a nice standalone desktop app for Google Play Music. It lets you keep your music player separate from your main browser, improving your overall performance...
Pingendo is a free, visual page builder site, letting you use Twitter Bootstrap design elements to build professional‐looking pages. You construct a page using prebuilt sections and elements in the visual editor, then replacing the placeholder text and images with your own work. You can preview y...
Warning: Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife. This article uses the F‑word.
Every so often, I go visit this website for inspiration: MotherFuckingWebsite.com
It starts with the text
This is a motherfucking website. And it’s fucking perfect. Seriously, what the fuck else do you want?
I...
UPDATE: The Popcorn Maker project has been discontinued and open sourced. Read the press release to learn more.
Mozilla Popcorn Maker is a free tool for triggering rich web content to pop up as a web video plays. You can import a YouTube video, then add your own annotations, links, quizze...
This post was originally written as a response to Kyle M. Jones’ posting on TheCorkboard.org entitled “Digital Learning and Badges” in which he calls for greater discussion around using “badges” to certify student learning online. Here is my response:
Everything I’ve heard is that badges are...