A Meme, learning spreadsheets, and Kid Pix – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/teaching-safely-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/learn-spreadsheets-with-sheethacks/
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/kid-pix-is-back-and-its-in-your-browser/
Here are two services that allow you to receive files from others, even if they don’t have a cloud account. There are times when you need to receive files (usually large ones) from students, parents, or other teachers. You can share a folder and let them put files in the folder, but there is no…
Depending on how knowledgeable you are, you might have heard about all of the aforementioned. Even if you have, the question is how well do you know all of them? Would you be comfortable explaining to a complete novice what all of these are at a high level and be sure that you aren’t skewing…
The secret to VLACS’ success may be that it does things differently from most virtual schools. It puts a focus on building strong student-teacher relationships. It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences. Source: Inside the…
https://eduk8.me/2018/10/syncing-settings-in-vivaldi-the-missing-piece/ https://eduk8.me/2018/10/teens-dont-like-presenting-in-class/ https://eduk8.me/2018/10/teens-are-being-bullied-almost-constantly-on-instagram/
How nice, then, to rediscover the transcript of a 30-year-old talk from Richard Hamming, a former math and computer professor and researcher. (Hamming was also part of the team that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War Two.) Hamming titled his talk, which he presented on 07 March 1986, “You and Your Research,” but…
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…