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I recently started planning a three‐day live training event with a colleague, in which we had to design several active lear...

Over the years I’ve been exploring Markdown as a content development tool, I’ve tried most of the Markdown editors available for Mac and Windows. In this article I’ll share my preferred editors aimed at different types of writers.

Writers vs. Coders

Markdown is very popular among two main au...

Hemingway is a markdown editor that coaches you to write more clearly, helping you to emulate Ernest Hemingway’s trademark sparse, journalistic style. Though I don’t use it as my main markdown editor, I’ve been thinking about ways it can be useful in a variety of learning tasks.

Once writin...

I have been evaluating Typora, a markdown editor for Mac (currently free while in beta). Its killer feature is a distraction‐free interface that allows you to type markdown syntax, but quickly hides it in a readable preview so you get more of a WYSIWYG experience.

I have been really enjoying t...

I’ve been blabbering on recently about #Markdown here on TedCurran.net, and I just managed to interest a roomful of seemingly sane people why putting weird characters all over your writing is a good idea. I’m taking this as a sign that people get it– we need to write for the web, not the deskt...

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This is a presentation I made to help my Beast Bloggers’ Support Group create a Content Plan for their blogs. I wanted them to take a broad view of their objectives and strengths as they develop their blogging identities. I had them list out their objectives...

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In my literature classes, I found that one of the biggest challenges for students when they sit down to write a paper is finding good quotes from the text. A great solution is to put the full text of a novel on your website (or at least link to one). Students can then use th...