Factitious is an online game to help people recognize fake news.
Factitious is an online game to help people recognize fake news. This would be a great way to teach students how to check sources and identify fake news sites.
An amazing list of tools to use in your classroom, ClassTools
I’m surprised I haven’t mentioned ClassTools.net before! ClassTools.net is a collection of tools to use in the classroom without any signup or passwords required. The tools can be used by all ages to create digital artifacts or tools to be used by the teacher. Check them out!
Students can use knudge.me to improve English skills
Knudge.me is an Android and iOS app to be used to improve English skills through mini lessons and games. As Android apps come to Chromebooks, apps like Knudge.me can be used in the classroom. Once launched, the Knudge.me app will ask the student to sign up or log in. They can use a Google login, which makes the app really easy…
Highlight sites in Google search results with the Google Search Filter extension
Google search results can be a little overwhelming for students. A search for volcano leaves you with 100,000,000 results. Google Search Filter is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to highlight results from certain sites and hide results from other sites. Once installed, head over to Google.com to configure the extension. It will first ask for…
Using RSS in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]LTHOUGH Feedly is a good web service to use, the limitations of the free plan of 100 feeds could be a problem if you want to follow more, such as when you have several classes blogging. Firefox,Chrome, and Safari support add-ons that let you follow RSS feeds right in the browser while Internet Explorer supports…
Grades & sleep, flashcards, and an electronic piano – Top 3 for the Week
https://eduk8.me/2018/04/poor-grades-can-be-related-to-sleep-schedules/ https://eduk8.me/2018/04/easily-create-flashcards-from-powerpoint-or-markdown-files-with-opencards/ https://eduk8.me/2018/04/music-fun-with-dot-piano/
Music fun with Dot Piano
Dot Piano is an online electric piano that can use your computer’s keyboard or a midi computer to play and record a song online. Pretty cool to play, and if I was still in the music classroom, I would be trying this out with my students! Here’s a neat recording to watch and listen.
Easily create flashcards from PowerPoint or Markdown files with OpenCards
OpenCards is a free award-winning flashcard learning software. The basic idea of OpenCards is to use PowerPoint presentations (*.ppt) or Markdown (*.md) files as flashcard sets. Thereby, slide-titles are represented as questions and the slide contents as their answers. Based on state-of-the-art memorization and scheduling algorithms OpenCards will help you to learn any set…
Lessons learned from prototyping the Wintergatan Marble Machine
“With the first Marble Machine I just started to build… I ended up building the same things 10 times because I didn’t do any prototypes.” “A big part of our monkey brain wants immediate reward at all times. I’m now trying to keep that part of my monkey brain at bay by not doing the…