A meme, a comic, and a Chrome extension – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/another-ed-initiative-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/the-teachers-lounge-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/01/full-page-capture-in-chrome/
It was great while it lasted, but social networking is going away. The idea was that you could sign up for a social network like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Flickr or Reddit and connect with old friends and acquaintances, make new ones or even interact with strangers about your life. Except…
Readability, a bookmarking service that also cleaned up web pages, is shutting down September 30th. I’m going to miss the website, I used their Chrome add-on to clean up webpages to read. Readability was a great way to focus on the content of the page, and I recommended the site for students that might be…
You’ve probably heard of the student-led “Genius Bar”, which is generally a team of student leaders that provide technical support for the technology devices and programs in their schools. What a great way to utilize and develop student knowledge and skills, right? I couldn’t agree more. Busch’s student tech teams have four sub-committees: the “Newcast…
Most presentations are linear in format, one slide after another. What if you wanted to make it more interactive, allowing your students to choose the path they take? Well, you can with Google Slides. I’ve made the sample presentation public so you can see how the final product works. The following video shows how you…
A student showed me this video this week in their presentation over the Intel 8088. I had now idea IBM had a portable computer like this available in 1977. Storage consisted of 204KB tapes. Amazing how far we’ve come in 40 years.
https://eduk8.me/2019/02/a-checklist-to-keeping-you-and-your-students-safe-on-the-internet/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/explaining-the-square-root-of-i-in-the-most-pleasant-way-the-joy-of-mathematics/ https://eduk8.me/2019/02/comic-the-ides-of-march/