A meme, stop-motion effects, and coding – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/09/busted-eduk8meme/
https://eduk8.me/2021/09/8-cool-stop-motion-effects/
https://eduk8.me/2021/08/learning-coding-with-crunchzilla/
Virtual reality is, once again, being heralded as a technology poised to transform education. I say “once again” because virtual reality has long been associated with such promises. VR appeared in some of the earliest Horizon Reports for example, with the 2007 report positing that virtual worlds would be adopted by higher ed institutions within…
Thanks to anonymous hackers, 500 more Apple II titles are now available on Archive.org. These games are fully playable in the browser, even on Chromebooks. There are a bunch of educational software for the Apple II software, so if you’re looking for an alternative ABCya, check it out.
This is part 1 of 13 Gmail hacks for teachers. There’s a phrase I like to use, “Your inbox is not an organizational tool”. But, how many people do you know that have thousands of emails in their inbox, mingling archived emails with actionable emails? By working toward inbox zero you’ll lessen the cognitive load…
New freebie – Chromebook Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet Here’s a cheat sheet with some of the more used keys on the Google Chromebook. Zoom on a Chromebook with these magnification shortcuts And speaking of Chromebook shortcuts, here are three ways to zoom on the Chromebook. Tab-resize splits your Chrome window easily Resize or create multiple…
A ton of announcements came out of the Google I/O 2018 keynote yesterday, but the most exciting is that Linux is coming to Chromebooks! I mentioned two years ago what a game changer Android apps will be for Chromebooks, and this is even bigger! Students will be able to edit videos, create and modify graphics…
I’ve been thinking about the questions that drive my work a lot of late. I’m wondering which are really worth pursuing, as in which do I think actually have an answer that is within reach of both my feeble brain and my time left on Earth. (Change in schools is very slow, in case you…