The Micro Bit mini-computer is to be sold across the world and enthusiasts are to be offered blueprints showing how to build their own versions. Source: The Micro Bit mini-computer is to be sold across the world and enthusiasts are to be offered blueprints showing how to build their own versions. The Micro bit was designed…
Over the past decade, academic research has increasingly examined issues of multitasking and distraction as people try to squeeze more activities into their busy lives. Prior to the Internet age, some cognition science research focused on how behavior might be better understood, improved and made more efficient in business, hospital or other high-pressure settings. But…
Today we’re introducing new time-saving features to Docs, Sheets and Slides designed to speed up and simplify the way teachers and students work, so they can focus on what’s really important—teaching and learning. These apps still have all of the same functionality that students and teachers love, with the addition of these new features. Source:…
I stumbled upon another option to record screencasts with Chrome and Chromebooks, CaptureCast. This extension has some nice features that the Nimbus tool doesn’t have. Most notably, webcam, Google Drive, YouTube, and Vimeo support. With CaptureCast, you can overlay your webcam video onto the screencast, or record only your webcam. Once you are finished recording,…
With the Common Core’s emphasis on data-driven instruction there is a misguided focus on using technology to deliver content and collect data rather than cultivate learning and stimulate cognitive development.Using education technology isn’t so much about students mastering a device or procedure so much as it is about mastering themselves first. Source: Use edtech to maximize student knowlege, skills and…
Google is pushing their machine learning to new and interesting processes, and is now applying their AI to Google Photos. New features Google can now find older photos of recently photographed people, making it easy to remember those moments with friends and family. Google photos can now put together an album of a subject of…
Students creating screencasts instead of presenting A great use of screencasts in the student centered classroom. Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting A way to highlight an entire row based on conditional formatting in Google Sheets Adding a timer to a Google Slides Use a Youtube video to add a countdown timer to…
It’s been a week of screen casting, and here’s a wrap up of the week. Why you want to create screencasts What are screencasts and why would you want to create them? Screencasting tools for teachers, free and non-free So how do you create screencasts? This post will show you the tools to use. I…
When a class is assigned to do a presentation for a subject, students groan. Maybe screencasts can bring back the magic? Not only do they have to stand in front of the class and present, they have to sit through 25 other presentations of students, done in the exact same manner. What if you mixed…
With all of this talk about screencasts, what about flipping your classroom? Flipping a classroom doesn’t involve gymnastics, trampolines, or basically any physical activity. Which is good, because my balance is on par with Weebles. When you flip your classroom, you provide your lecture or some other support materials to your students as homework before the…