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/
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,…
Speak is an extension for Chrome that performs text to speech. You may already know about Speak-It, but it has two issues that may not work for you in your district. One is the fact that is free for non-commercial use only. Does a school district satisfy that requirement? I don’t know. The second is…
This “c factor” is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group. Source: Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups |…
https://eduk8.me/2018/11/comic-work-is-work/ https://eduk8.me/2018/11/rating-schools/ https://eduk8.me/2018/11/resize-multiple-images-with-birme-bulk-image-resizing-made-easy/
https://eduk8.me/2018/12/comic-christmas-wishes/ https://eduk8.me/2018/12/vivaldi-adding-a-web-panel/ https://eduk8.me/2018/12/the-greatest-demo-ever-is-50-years-old/
This is part 2 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. As we learned yesterday, we want to reduce our cognitive load of dealing with emails by getting them out of the inbox and into a system where we don’t have to remember what we need to do, but can easily find what we need to…