A Meme, a comic, and saving bookmarks – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/06/eduk8meme-school-this-fall/
https://eduk8.me/2020/06/comic-4k-hd/
https://eduk8.me/2020/06/bookmark-and-share-links-with-prism/
https://eduk8.me/2020/08/drag-and-drop-ranking-with-tiermaker/ https://eduk8.me/2020/08/ways-to-keep-engagement-during-virtual-meetings/ https://eduk8.me/2020/08/blur-your-background-in-google-meet/
Every once in awhile, you want to download your Google Slides presentation as a series of images. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t offer a way to do this. Well, you could download each slide individually, but I thought computers were supposed to make life easier! I know that Microsoft PowerPoint can do the conversion, but I wanted…
Good discussion starters for those moving from an information environment of carefully vetted resources (libraries and print publication with journalistic integrity) to, well, the Internet. It seems our lessons did not take. To our detriment and possibly to the deteriment of our nation. While the ability to spot “fake” news on the Internet has always…
Keith O’Neal has been putting together a list of educators, by state, which is a great way of getting started on Twitter. New Twitter users are victims of a catch-22 situation. To get the most out of Twitter you want to follow people of interest, but to find the people you want to follow, you…
Somewhere between education and entertainment lies a sweet spot. MinecraftEdu — rereleased as Minecraft: Education Edition — hit square on the mark by bringing game-based learning to subjects like anatomy and art history. Now, Nintendo’s Pokémon GO mobile game appears poised to find its target too. The augmented reality app, released just one week ago,…
The Real Value of Computer Science Providing students with open ended opportunities to think critically (with or without coding) creates problem solvers and independence, both of which are required skills for today’s industry. Experts have branded a set of skills as “21 Century Competencies” which include computational thinking. Coding also supports spatial sense and makes…