Random Thoughts Blog

For the last twenty years, David Stephan, who is the principal of Two Bridges Instructional Technology, has kept a series of blogs on this and other related websites. This page displays both selected old as well as new blog entries that David will post from time-to-time.

Early on, we at Two Bridges decided never to take ourselves as serious as some others in the field. One day we thought it might be fun to post a mission statement that discussed how we “proudly used” the latest technology. We first posted the page on April Fools’ Day in 2009 on a predecessor …

I have always been guided by a high school teacher who took some of us aside and said that we were all his age, everyone would have a desktop computer, a startlingly thing to say as this was in the early 70s. Therefore, I made sure to touch the only computer teleprinter terminal in the …

I have just seen the result of turning a print-based work into a modern hyperlink digital eBook. Everything that could be hyperlinked: key terms, section or chapter cross-references, and even each and every figure. In being enthralled about adding hyperlinks, in the way we were all were when we first saw HyperCard or systems such …