Category: design
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Hands-on Introduction to Mobile Learning App/Game Creation for Non-Programmers
These are my notes from Chris Thompson‘s breakout session, “Hands-on Introduction to Mobile Learning App/Game Creation for Non-Programmers” at the 2012 Mobile Learning Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 11, 2012. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. My notes and an audio recording from Chris’ presentation yesterday, “Why Every Teacher Should Become an…
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Why Every Teacher Should Become an App Creator by Chris Thompson
These are my notes from Chris Thompson‘s breakout session, “Why Every Teacher Should Become an App Creator” at the 2012 Mobile Learning Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 11, 2012. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The official conference session description was: Until recently development of mobile learning apps/games has been limited to…
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WordPress Basics by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
These are my notes from our March 26, 2012, Oklahoma City WordPress User’s Group meeting. Our speaker tonight is Lisa Sabin-Wilson, author of the WordPress for Dummies books and BuddyPress For Dummies, WordPress All In One For Dummies and WordPress Web Design For Dummies. Lisa lives in Wisconsin and Skyped in to our meeting. We…
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Green Screen Photo Effects On The Cheap
This evening my 6th grade daughter asked for some help creating a photograph she needed for a printed program she’s making for drama class. In this post, I’ll explain how we used Keynote ’09 and Seashore software (Seashore is free/open source) to create a “green screen” effect that made it look like her sister was…
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Want a Mobile App or Mobile Friendly Website for an Upcoming Conference?
I received an email recently from an Oklahoma teacher interested in creating a mobile app for a summer conference which would work on different kinds of smartphones including iPhones, Android phones, and Blackberry phones. Here’s my reply. What would you add to this or change in my reply? If you’re looking to share information with…
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5th Graders Develop Problem Solving Skills with Lego WeDo Robotics
(cross-posted from the Yukon Public Schools Learning Showcase website) Some 5th grade students at Lakeview Elementary School in Yukon Public Schools are developing their problem solving and computational thinking skills using Lego WeDo Robotics kits. On February 13, 2012, fifth graders Cade and Thomas used the graphical, icon-based programming environment of the Lego WeDo Robotic…
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Help the Oklahoma City CoWorking Collaborative Reboot!
For the past several years, I’ve been a member and beneficiary of the Oklahoma City Co-Working Collaborative. If you’re not familiar with the co-working model, you should definitely read up on it. It’s great, and a super way for creative professionals to network as well as work together. The okcCoCo is winding up a week…
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Create a Custom Google Gadget for Blogger or Google Sites
A large number of “Google Gadgets” are available to insert into sites you create with Blogger and Google Sites. It is possible to create a custom Google Gadget also, which can be embedded in multiple pages. In this seven minute screencast, I describe how to create a simple Google Gadget which can serve as another…
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Create a subdomain for a website as an add-on slot
Last week I created a new WordPress website (learn.playingwithmedia.com) for the series of workshops I’m offering both face-to-face and via videoconference in December focusing on skills from my eBook, “Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing.” The main website for my book (playingwithmedia.com) is hosted for free by Posterous.com. The learn.playingwithmedia.com site, however, is…