In my first career, I was an AVID video editor and worked in Hollywood editing television shows for Paramount TV, MTV, E Entertainment, Lifetime, and others. A lot of the job of a video editor is to watch raw footage of people talking and doing things, cutting out the boring bits, leaving only the...
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OK, friends– it’s time to get over it. You might call young people “digital native students” but there are severe limits to their ability to turn that geekdom into real learning. The persistent myth of modern digital native students connotes for many that millennial stude...
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...
Amara, formerly Universal Subtitles (which I thought was a better name) is an open source tool to let your audience contribute subtitles to your videos, wiki‐style. You post your video to a service like YouTube or Vimeo, give Amara the URL, and it gives you a “wrapper” t...
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...
I’m excited to announce that this post is now featured in the curriculum of the eCampus Ontario Canada teacher micro‐credentialing program! So glad that this content is valuable to a new generation of teachers!
In the 21st Century world of abundant free educational content, teachers are challe...
I religiously read Audrey Watters’ Hack Education blog, often finding that I agree with her in principle and then disagree about the details of how to put a plan in...
This is a reflection on the process for using Trello in Project‐Based Learning that will hopefully help you decide if Trello is right for your projects. I have written before how much I like using...