Comic, coding, and libraries – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2019/09/comic-worksheets/
https://eduk8.me/2019/09/learn-programing-with-kodable/
https://eduk8.me/2019/09/why-we-need-school-libraries/
Twitter announced several upcoming changes to the format of the Tweet and how tweets will be treated in the future. The goal is to open up more characters to be used in the tweet itself. Replies When you reply to a tweet, the @USERNAMEs will not count as characters in the tweet. The limit will…
I try to automate as much as possible, and this last month I looked at speeding up my email use. There is a Gmail lab called Canned Responses that let’s you save several responses and then easily insert them into an email. To turn it on, once you are in Gmail, go to settings. Then click…
Add your favorite sites or search engines directly to the Google Chrome address bar. You may have used some of the keywords to automatically search specific sites in the address bar. Google sets up several keywords by default. For example, if you type youtube.com into the address bar, Chrome let’s you know that you can…
Some people may use a journal, but I find using my email faster and easier to record things that I’ve done or things that I want to remember. How it works When I have information I want to save or to record a task I’ve done, I send it to [email protected]. A Gmail filter automatically…
The tagline for IFTTT is Put the internet to work for you. What then mean is that you can automate tasks, allowing for you to create workflows that you didn’t believe were possible or were too time consuming. IFTTT is short for If This Then That. To begin using IFTTT, you add channels for services…
American schools are teaching our kids how to code all wrong — Quartz Coding in schools isn’t about becoming computer science majors. Google Spaces is a new way to collaborate and share resources Kind of a neat competitor to Slack. My quick review of the Asus Flip Chromebook TL;DR, I like it.