Whenever we build a one‐size‐fits‐all learning experience for all students to move through independently, we should think about how the learner will get personalized feedback when they get a wrong answer. We want to present them with authentic challenges that will reveal whether they have mastered t...
Our team maintains a library of basic research about eLearning vendors we’ve worked with, or may explore in future. Until now, these files were stored in Microsoft Office docs. When I was asked to review and revise them, I decided to convert them into a non‐linear, visual knowledge base using markdo...
I recently started planning a three‐day live training event with a colleague, in which we had to design several active lear...
I don’t know if this is actually a good idea or not, but hear me out (and please comment below!):
Can a URL be used as a strong password?
This morning I was walking the dog, futzing with my phone, and trying to sign up for a new social network. The app a...
This video shows you how you can quickly convert a Markdown formatted presentation outline into an HTML5 presentation using Reveal.js. I think this method is a great way to familiarize yourself with web technologies while producing attractive and powerful presentations that work gr...
This week I discovered Black Menu for Chrome, an extension that lets you access any of your Google tools from a dropdown in the browser. You can invoke it with a keystroke and quickly navigate to the tool you need. I’m finding thi...
Two of the most popular posts here on TedCurran.net deal with replacing your too‐huge collection of browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome to improve your browser’s speed and performance.
Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity and
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Until I saw this TED talk, I didn’t care much that free Web 2.0 tools like Google and Facebook were collecting massive dossiers of information about my online habits. I thought they were just using it to serve me more relevant ads and improve my user experience. It seemed like a small price to pay f...
When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons license. Works released in the Creative Commons can be reused, remixed, redistributed, and revised for free– this makes it easy for me to share this ex...