Design a street with Streetmix. Streetmix is an website that allows you to design your own street. You can place various roads, sidewalks, public transportation, etc. in your street. I could see students using this to redesign streets in their home town and try to answer problems such as the lack of sidewalks or places to…
Think about the lawyers who’ve been hugely successful doing what they have done for 20-30+ years in law firms. They aren’t seeing the shift to needing to be technically competent, using technology to be more efficient, using social media to connect with potential clients, or restructuring their firm to take advantage of a variety of…
Over a million icons are available in the Noun Project. Need an icon for that presentation, project, or website? Then the Noun Project is for you. Each icon can be downloaded as a PNG or SVG. Some icons are in the public domain and can be used as you wish, while others require attribution or have…
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See how families live around the world with Dollar Street Dollar Street is a project where Anna Rosling Rönnlund interview families around the world and photographed the families. This photos are used on the website to show a fictional street, where the poorest families are on one end of the street and the richer families live at…
In this 50-year retrospective, we’re looking at technologies that had an impact on the world, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad. Source: Technology that changed us: The 1990s, from WorldWideWeb to Google Hard to belief we are 20 years past the introduction of the PalmPilot! I wish…
Learning a few keyboard shortcuts and navigation tricks is one of the best ways to improve your productivity. Used effectively, they are a lot faster than reaching for the mouse every couple of seconds. Shortcuts are especially useful when you’re surfing the web. Traditionally, browsing web pages and navigating through tabs is very mouse-intensive….
KeyKey Typing Tutor for the Mac teaches touch typing through muscle memory I am intrigued by the method KeyKey Typing Tutor uses to teach touch typing. Instead of focusing on the home row and the location of the keys, KeyKey Typing Tutor wants the learned to develop the muscle memory to type words.quickly and accurately. If you or your…
Source: Simple Blocker – Chrome Web Store This is a great extension for students. It will block access to specific sites when turned on to minimize distractions. Although it is simple to turn off, Simple Blocker could help students learn that there are times that you need to be productive and times that you need to goof…