Escape rooms in Google Docs (interactive fiction?)

Escape rooms in Google Docs (interactive fiction?)

For anyone who’s been lucky enough to spend the majority of the pandemic working from home, the idea of escaping the room (or couch) that’s become a makeshift office is probably a relatable one. Enter this series of “escape rooms” built in Google Docs, that let you do just that, inside web software you’ve probably become…

Ding Dong – Flash is Dead!

Ding Dong – Flash is Dead!

Today is the day that Adobe end-of-lifes one of the greatest and most frustrating of internet technologies, Flash. Flash was great in the late 90s, allowing web developers to create interactive, good looking websites. YouTube took Flash to a new level by allowing video to be played easily. The downsides for Flash are many. The…

Public Domain Day is coming!

Public Domain Day is coming!

On January 1, 2021, copyrighted works from 1925 will enter the US public domain,1 where they will be free for all to use and build upon. These works include books such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, and Franz Kafka’s The Trial (in the original German), silent films featuring Harold Lloyd…

Create Graphic Organizers in Google Slides #YouTube

Create Graphic Organizers in Google Slides #YouTube

Not only can you easily create graphic organizers in Google Slides, but you can also lock items and share the completed organizer with your students through Google Classroom or Google Drive sharing. Other Google Slides help: How to lock objects in Google Slides (two ways, one doesn’t involve downloading graphics!) – 6 tips to make…

How do you onboard new teachers?

How do you onboard new teachers?

In early 2020 I was tapped to design an onboarding program for three new Instructional Designers that would be added to our team in the coming months. I decided to take a multi-modal approach to designing the onboarding experience, balancing consistent, online, low-touch eLearning experiences with high-touch, rich, interactive, learner-centered constructivist activities. Now that it’s…