A meme, a comic, and coding – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/09/when-school-doesnt-close-for-the-county-fair-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/09/how-to-labor-day-comic/
https://eduk8.me/2021/09/coding-for-kids-with-codemoji/
Center Stage is a camera feature built in to several iPad models that uses software and the front facing camera to track a person and keep them in the center of view. It will track multiple people, zooming out when necessary to keep both in the field of view. Why Center Stage You may have…
The other day I came across a web app that allowed users to print GIF animations as flipbooks. The site – gifprint.com – isn’t working anymore but the idea is nonetheless interesting. The app extracts all the image frames of the animated GIF, arranges the individual frames in sequence, like a contact sheet, and then…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Technology is a weird beast. There are people we expect to know a lot about it, and then there are people we expect to not know anything about it. The unspoken truth is…
Source: Today We Learned: Empower parents to start better learning conversations. Today We Learned is a free site that’s designed to streamline communication with parents. Teachers are given message starters to help create messages to be sent, and also teachers can send alerts and notifications to all parents or to a particular student’s parents. There…
Take an online course is part 4 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Take an online course Online courses aren’t just for students, there are many ways teachers can take an online course to increase their knowledge and get experience. Depending on your school district and local professional development…
The Google Cast for education app is now available. To try it out, teachers need to install the Google Cast for Education app, and the students need to install the Google Cast extension. There are three caveats right now: The Chromebooks must be in the Beta channel, running ChromeOS 52 or newer. This won’t be the…