What are you going to do first?
Life is full of firsts. Your first step. Your first words. Your first days of school.
This year I asked graduates, “What are you going to do first?”, implying that what they do now will probably not be what they will be doing the years from now.
Next fall, as school gears back up, I’m going to ask “What are you going to do first?”.
But, summer is now. What are you going to do first?
I’ve been remembering two (but I suspect there are more) video games that integrate the player’s doodling skills as CLMOOC (Connected Learning MOOC) explores the elements of doodling and sketching this Make Cycle. Source: Kevin’s Meandering Mind | Games That Draw You In to Doodle Doodling is a great way to help you and your students remember things, and…
Homebrew is a great way to easily install all sorts of command line goodies as easily as brew install. I use it to install programs such as Pandoc (convert between several different text formats or create ebooks) or ImageMagick (manipulate images from the command line). Tonight I went to install Mosh (remote access command line client), but was greeted by a series of…
In the age of #CSforAll, there are hundreds of online resources to teach you and your students how to code. But is it possible to learn this digital skill through an analogue method? For those of you that love the touch, smell, and feel of books, below is a list of recommended reads to get…
This is part 7 of 13 things to do before the first day of school. Who doesn’t like to drag furniture around their classrooms for hours trying to find the perfect arrangement? Well, pretty much everyone, but that’s why we have computers. There are tools you can use to lay out your classroom on the…
Slashdot linked to an article at The Guardian where Lawrence ‘Larry’ Luckham to his camera to work one day in 1967. He brought a camera into work to capture a day in the life at a company churning out some of the biggest technological advances of the decade The article brought out some interesting theories on the state…
