A comic, a meme, and teaching coding – A Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/face-to-face-again-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/i-named-my-car-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/should-kids-be-taught-coding/
Worlds of Learning | 30 Ways to Create the Conditions to Inspire in a Makerspace I recently took my students into New York City to meet with the team from Buncee. In addition to being an amazing multimedia storytelling tool, Buncee has an incredibly passionate and committed group of people on their team. They spent time talking to…
When taking pictures with your smartphone, two tips come to mind: Don’t bother cropping before taking the picture Almost all smartphones use a digital zoom for zooming instead of an optical zoom. An optical zoom uses lenses to adjust the image being caught by the sensor, but since smartphones do not have the space for…
The other thing that is not entirely obvious is that Playgrounds has full access to the entire iOS API. This means that there is effectively no limit on the complexity of Playground that you can build. You can use APIs like Core Location, WebKit, MapKit, Core Motion, Networking and Core Bluetooth. One of the demos…
100 Educators to follow on Twitter – by state Keith O’Neal’s list of educators to follow, listed by state. ‘Let It Go’: A New Set of Classroom Management Strategies for the 21st Century A great list of classroom management tips. New messaging apps from Google – Allo and Duo Duo has been released, still waiting…
This is part 11 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. I’ll be the first one to tell you my memory is terrible, especially with interactions during the day. Of course at the moment I believe I’ll remember it, but a day later and it’s already gone. This is my reason for setting up a journal…