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/
https://eduk8.me/2021/07/this-years-supply-list-eduk8meme/ https://eduk8.me/2021/07/back-to-school-supplies-comic/ https://eduk8.me/2021/07/freesound-provides-sound-effects-for-your-next-great-multimedia-project/
Here are some of my favorite Twitter tips from Missing Manual. 140 Unicode characters The length of a tweet is limited to 140 characters, and unicode characters count as one character. For most this would be assumed, but if you know how Unicode characters are stored, they are usually two or more bytes, so you may…
I wouldn’t be able to survive without Pocket. It allows me to quickly save links to resources, while also giving me an interface to read longer length articles. Most Twitter clients allow you to set up Pocket as a sharing resource, and Pocket also includes extensions to use with your favorite browser. When you pocket…
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…
The tagline for IFTTT is Put the internet to work for you. What then mean is that you can automate tasks, allowing for you to create workflows that you didn’t believe were possible or were too time consuming. IFTTT is short for If This Then That. To begin using IFTTT, you add channels for services…
Participate in a Twitter chat is part 3 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Although I touched on Twitter Chats yesterday, today I want dig deeper into what Twitter chats are and why you would want to participate. What is a Twitter chat? When Twitter was first released to…