A Meme, a comic, and a new journalism app – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/05/fences-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/05/the-last-month-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/05/pressto-journalism-web-platform-is-launching-this-spring/
Today, open educational resources (OER) are an increasingly common feature in the K–12 education ecosystem. As one example, consider the popularity of Khan Academy, whose library of practice activities and videos are accessed each month by over 10 million users around the world and in many schools across the United States. Similarly, as school systems…
Power Tools is an addon for Google Sheets that automates a ton of workflows. Instead of writing and troubleshooting functions, Power Tools can do it for you. Some of its features include splitting cells based on any delimiter or position (were you handed a spreadsheet with full name in column A but you need the…
When Gmail was first released, Google pushed really hard to get people to think past folders. Gmail used Labels, with the prime distinction that an email could have multiple labels at the same time. Much like tags, this ability allows you to organize your information in a variety of ways. Using the Add here function lets…
As it turns out, economists, chemists, aviators, and scuba divers use the Rule of Three (even Agatha Christie did when she wrote a series of plays entitled, The Rule of Three). Although it has not been labeled as the Rule of Three, great educators have used it in classrooms since Aristotle (ever heard of syllogisms?). So what is…
SlideBot automatically creates presentations from your text. Once you sign up, you enter the text you want on each slide. SlideBot analyzes the text and picks an image for each slide. It then analyzes the image for the best place to position your text, along with selecting a format for the text itself. After SlideBot creates your presentation, you…