At times when creating courses you will come across issues where all is needed to do is clear your browsers cache. Below are the steps on how to do that for Internet Explore, Chrome, and Safari. Internet Explore: These steps are relatively the same for versions 8 and 9. With your browser open click on the small gear icon on the Right hand side of the window. eLearning Strategy MORE >>

Learning is everywhere. People learn by watching and doing. We do this every day and may not even realize this. The 70-20-10 rule may not be provable, but it’s certainly palpable. It just feels right. It makes sense. But how can you prove that this informal learning has taken place? How can you take this learning from one role or job to another? The answer is coming. Pedagogy and Learning Strategy Tin Can Open Badges personal data locker Tin Can API Tron MORE >>

I have just recently been appointed to the role of principal and began my new leadership role the first day back from the Christmas break in January. After blogging about the use of mobile devices from the perspective of classroom instruction and student learning for over five years, I now find myself considering how these same tools that can be used to help students learn can also be used to strengthen the home-school connection. In experimenting with new ideas and practices, I have turned to two of my most trusted tools – my iPhone and Twitter. What could those be? MORE >>

'Part 1. The obligatory history lesson: It happened to the record industry first. While popular music had long been available on radio, it could be argued that a true music industry as we know it today didn’t arise until the 50‘s and 60‘s when distributable media and players became widely available. To summarize – you bought your music on record, then on 8-track, then on cassette, and then on CD once again. Sounds very much like a ‘cartel’, or “association of suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition”. But that’s where technology turned. MORE >>

'Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show , Maddow described how Mobile Commons Advocacy can bring unprecedented political pressure to bear on legislative decision-makers. Mobile Commons Advocacy can “take people who are moved by this issue and connect them to the person they can most move in Washington,” she said. That high praise came during a segment on Maddow’s show about Mayors Against Illegal Guns and their campaign for comprehensive legislation to end gun violence. So that you can tell your senator, of whom you are their constituent, to support background checks. Smart.” MORE >>