A comic, a meme, and fast entry/exit tickets – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/02/time-for-netflix-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/02/upcoming-evaluation-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/02/fast-entry-exit-tickets-with-google-forms-youtube/
This thread by Tony Vincent on Twitter got me thinking about the various ways you can set up a document camera with your phone or a tablet. **Since I posted this article, I have had a chance to put together a video showing the software side. This technique is easier than the software listed below…
New Tools for Interactive Fiction and Engaged Writing | Edutopia Students were using interactive fiction tools to reimagine American Revolution battles as text-based adventures, written from the second-person perspective. Interactive fiction is essentially a computer-based version of Choose Your Own Adventure books, in which the reader has agency regarding a story’s multiple, threaded outcome. I…
I had a brief conversation with a 12 year old boy this month that went as follows: TEACHER: “WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE SUBJECT?” STUDENT: “ART” TEACHER: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN ART?” STUDENT: “MAKING CLAY ANIMALS” TEACHER: “WHY ARE YOU MAKING CLAY ANIMALS?” STUDENT: “I DON’T KNOW, IT’S LIKE A MATH TEST. THE TEACHERS GIVE YOU THIS…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. In honor of Star Wars Day, I decided to dig out a presentation I did in 2014. It was entitled Star Wars: A New Teacher, and I laid out everything that Star Wars has…
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