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A great source of maps for classrooms studying map reading, national parks, land features, and more!
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YouiDraw is advertised as “Adobe Illustrator in the cloud”. The website works with vectors, which means the drawings consist of mathematical representations of objects. This is different from raster pictures, such as jpeg, gif, and png. Vector graphics can be resized smaller or bigger, without any loss of fidelity. There are three parts to YouiDraw, Drawing, Logo…
Teaching students to be good citizens and makers requires the knowledge of copyright and of the ability to create your own content. Drawing characters for comics, cartoons, Scratch, etc. can be difficult. Students want their work to look good, and when they can’t draw items that look good, they get discouraged. This past week I…
Audiobooks are a valid listening component, providing rich exposure to sophisticated spoken words in school and at home. We’ve seen evidence of this in the work we do at Tales2go, but wanted to be more rigorous in our approach and have data to support our argument. We contracted with WestEd, a leading educational research nonprofit,…
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This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. The parachute from the Perseverance landing carried a hidden message. Encoded in binary, the message read Dare Mighty Things. This was the team’s motto, and was plastered on the walls of Mission Control…
