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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. Technology is a weird beast. There are people we expect to know a lot about it, and then there are people we expect to not know anything about it. The unspoken truth is…
In my initial post about Android on the Asus Flip Chromebook, I wrote how it was pretty easy to get the Amazon App store up and running. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. At the time, my Chromebook was in Developer Mode. This mode is different from the Developer Channel for ChromeOS. Developer Mode removes a…
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All of the major operating systems support multiple users (even the iPad is getting it), which allows each user of a machine to have their own settings, wallpaper, bookmarks, etc. Usually, you have one log in and that is it, but I’ve been experimenting with having two logins, and switching between them depending on the task. I…
Nicky Case has created an easy to use site for creating simulations. These simulations use a grid and emoji to represent complex systems. The first examples on the page are about forest fires, and then they evolve from there. Items can be placed on the grid with a purpose or randomly through the set up of…
If you’ve used Google Docs, you’ve probably notice that each and every document you create is in the Arial font at 11 points. Now, sometimes you may change the font, and marvel at how your Google Doc no longer looks like every other Google Doc. Unfortunately, this is tedious to do every time, so what if…