If you’ve ever wanted to create an app for mobile, desktop, or the web, you might not know where to start. Creating interactive app mockups can help you explain your idea more clearly to collaborators, designers, developers, and investors. You could spend time and money mastering a specialized t...
This is a method of constructing effective PowerPoint presentations in a way that helps your audience pay attention to you and understand your ideas more fully. With Attention Method, the slides are designed to add power, emphasis, and deeper understanding to your well‐scripted speech. You flip slid...
You don’t need fancy design skills to make attractive web graphics for your blog or online course. This tutorial will teach you how to create beautiful web graphics using only PowerPoint, images, and screenshots. To be more specific, we are going to find a nice background image on the web, then add...
A faculty recently approached me asking how he could produce Khan Academy – style video lessons. He was looking for an Android tablet equivalent to ShowMe, the iPad app that lets you write freehand, record your voice, and post videos online similar...
How long is too long for a lecture? Teachers can commonly spend upwards of 45 minutes lecturing in class. This arbitrary time frame is something we’ve settled into thanks to the traditional lengths of classroom meeti...
I have been exploring what it would look like to write for the web instead of the desktop, by creating documents in Markdown and HTML rather than Word and Powerpoint. Instead of emailing files to people, I publish them online and then send someone a link. As I do this, I’m finding that I can u...
Since coming to the realization that we should all be writing for the web and not for paper, I've been trying to figure out a new way of working in Markdown that totally circumvents desktop authoring programs like Microsoft Office altogether and lets you produce web-native content. This helps me...
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How many times have students tried to get out of writing a paper with the excuse “but I don’t have Microsoft Word!” Now, you can direct them to OpenOffice.org to get a free, legal replacement for M$ Office. It slices, it dices, it can save in .doc format, as well as PD...