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/
Connecting globally is really powerful, but how do we use this medium in a way to enhance professional learning and empower the voice of teachers in our own building. Sometimes seeing the impact of using Twitter on a global level brings ideas back into our classrooms, but perhaps using Twitter locally could push people to connect others…
We’ve all been there, clicking on a story, reading it, and then following links to related stories. Soon you are doing searches for the topic, and falling farther and farther down the rabbit’s hole. That’s what happened to me a couple of weeks ago when I came across the Hemingwriter (now called FreeWrite) Kickstarter project….
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Technology troubleshooting and mindset When I’m working with others, I have a question I use to figure out their mindset: When technology goes wrong, what do you do? If they answer that they…
I’ve been using PDF Escape to mark up PDFs when I’m on a Chromebook, and Kami is a fantastic entry into the mark up PDFs market. You can access Kami in any browser by visiting https://web.kamihq.com/, and it supports Google Logins, so students can start using it right away. The free plan should probably be enough for…
You can now add questions to Google Classroom for quick polls. There are two answer types, short answer and multiple choice. As it is for polling, there isn’t any option for automatic feedback with the correct answer. Unfortunately, Google still hasn’t added any sort of organizational tool to group items in the classroom or organize…
Stephen Colbert warned us when he coined the term “truthiness” for those things that feel satisfyingly true, but have no actual basis in fact. And now we are swimming in it. From a Washington Post piece about brexit: All of this has come about thanks to a world that is increasingly suspicious of experts. Please,…