The Coronavirus quarantine has given all kinds of non‐technical computer users a crash course in Zoom online meetings. This creates an opportunity for those users to develop skills in recording their own high‐quality explainer videos, screencasts, and lecture sessions. Zoom’s record meeting featu...
I’ve long been a believer that teachers should explore open source edtech tools as an alternative to all the free, freemium, ad‐supported, and privacy‐invading web applications that are marketed to us. In addition to all the great open source desktop applications, there are a lot of open alternati...
A response to PowerPoint Remix Rant by Mike Caulfield.
Mike laments how the long list of specialized graphical tools in PowerPoint is a recipe for making Open Ed Resources that are next to impossible to reuse, remix, and repurpose to other contexts.
Most things work like this, unfortunat...
If you do a lot of presentations or tutorials about technology, you probably have to take screenshots of websites to illustrate your ideas. I really like to add a “wow” factor to my presentations whenever I can do it gracefully, and I’ve been using Firefox’s 3D Developer Preview to add visual in...