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…
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It follows the discovery by teachers that children familiar with traditional computer spellcheckers were simply applying it to the tests. Source: Pupils find spellchecker ‘cheat’ in literacy test – BBC News They taught the students TOO well!
Inko is a collaborative whiteboard for iPhone, iPad, and AppleTV. If all of your students have access to iOS devices, then Inko may be something to check out. Once installed, teachers and students can collaborate on the same whiteboard, while also displaying the whiteboard on a large screen through the use of an Apple TV…
GlowScript is an easy-to-use, powerful environment for creating 3D animations and publishing them on the web. Here at glowscript.org, you can write and run GlowScript programs right in your browser, store them in the cloud for free, and easily share them with others Source: GlowScript IDE This one is for the most advanced students or teachers….