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BRANSON: Well I mean, I think, I find that some American companies are anything but good at motivating people. And I find that hard to understand, because if you’ve got a happy, motivated group of people you’re working with, you can achieve anything. And you know, you can ride the good times together, you can…
Pamela Paul’s memories of reading are less about words and more about the experience. “I almost always remember where I was and I remember the book itself. I remember the physical object,” says Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, who reads, it is fair to say, a lot of books. “I…
Source: Rocketium | Quick video creation for social media Via: Rocketium Is Like A Video-Creation Tool For Dummies (& I Include Myself In That Description) | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… Wow, this is a very cool tool. Students can use their own clips and pictures or Rocketium’s copyright free library. Creations can also be collaboratively…
The dinosaurs pair over Bluetooth to a new Jurassic World companion iOS / Android app, and kids can drag and drop code to make them do things. The robots can move, light up, make noise, or engage in different interactions. I particularly loved their dancing mode. Source: Dancing dinosaurs will teach your kid to code –…
Source: Anchor – The easiest way to make a podcast I’ve mentioned Anchor before, but their latest update demanded another post. It is still free to use, and now you can use a web interface or a mobile app to record your audio. Each snippet of audio can be edited together to form a podcast, which…
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Designed for kids ages eight and up, the Educator Kit contains over 300 building blocks and 30 hours of educational STEAM curriculum to teach kids Scratch, an introductory programming language on the KOOV app to control the robots they build. There’s 23 different robots you can make using pre-coded “Robot Recipes”, which are jumping-off points…
“Why can’t I be more like [insert name of your favorite speaker]?” When lawyers ask this question, it usually means they’ve been on their feet in court or presenting to potential clients and it didn’t go well. They felt anxious, insecure, unsettled — far from the confidence they’d hoped to project. Source: Confidence Is Personal: Being…