Why Write for Paper? Or ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love HTML’
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...
View ArticleMaking HTML5 Presentations in the Cloud with Markdown: Slid.es
Since coming to the realization that we should all be writing for the web and not for paper, I’ve been trying to figure out a new way of working in Markdown that totally circumvents desktop authoring...
View ArticleWork Like a Web Writer: Adding Web UI Elements to Improve your Documents
I have been exploring what it would look like to write for the web instead of the desktop, by creating documents in Markdown and HTML rather than Word and Powerpoint. Instead of emailing files to...
View Article“Own the Means of Production”: What Karl Marx Knew about Opportunity in the...
Even though the Internet is often credited for bringing about a “New Economy”, in fact many longstanding economic trends continue to play themselves out between the “haves” and the “have nots” when it...
View ArticleAction-Oriented eLearning with the Humble WebQuest
One challenge about creating reusable eLearning content is that designers often fall back into the banking model of education, creating a passive and dependent learning experience for students. This...
View ArticleHTML5 Presentations from Markdown to Reveal.js
This video shows you how you can quickly convert a Markdown formatted presentation outline into an HTML5 presentation using Reveal.js. I think this method is a great way to familiarize yourself with...
View ArticleOne PowerPoint, Indivisible | Markdown Presentations for Futureproof Flexibility
A response to PowerPoint Remix Rant by Mike Caulfield.Mike laments how the long list of specialized graphical tools in PowerPoint is a recipe for making Open Ed Resources that are next to impossible to...
View ArticleMake Your Perfect Markdown Editor with Atom Editor Plugins
Up until now I’ve used dedicated Markdown editors like Haroopad and MacDown as a tool where I can focus on writing, while reserving more sophisticated code editors like Coda and Atom for web design...
View ArticleBuild a Web Page Fast with Emmet.io
I’ve been developing a lot of elearning design in HTML5 recently, and I’ve been rediscovering how much I love working with Emmet.io (formerly known as Zen Coding). It’s a simple syntax that lets you...
View ArticleCollaborate via Wiki for a Web-Native Content Development Process
In my role as an instructional designer/ Learning Content Developer, a big part of the job is taking instructional materials that my subject matter experts (SMEs) have already created and transforming...
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