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…
Poor grades can be related to sleep schedules
Their findings, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, show that students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules – say, night owls taking early morning courses – received lower grades due to “social jet lag,” a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands….
Getting started with RSS
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]HILE using an RSS reader is a pretty easy process, setting it up isn’t. There are a couple of hoops to jump through, but once you set it up you can read your RSS feeds like a boss. For an introduction into why you would want to us RSS, check out my article from last…
Webjets, RSS, and a comic – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/04/check-out-webjets-for-another-way-to-share-content-online-like-padlets/ https://eduk8.me/2018/04/want-to-save-time-check-out-rss/ https://eduk8.me/2018/04/comic-test-prep-part-3/
RSS is making a comeback
THE MODERN WEB contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often…