ArtBeats simple sequencer where you can create visual patterns and listen to them, with the ability to change the instrumentation, tempo, swing, and more. With ArtBeats, making music is easy and fun! Importance of music in education There is a growing body of research that suggests music can have a positive impact on children’s education….
AUSTIN, Texas – Co-workers who team up to solve problems or work on projects can benefit when they have less in common and take turns spotlighting their different expertise, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin. The findings have implications for how managers can better form and manage teams so all…
Twisted Wave is an audio editor that works in your browser. There’s no need to download any additional software, which means you can start editing and recording right away. The free version is limited in terms of recording size and type, but it’s still a great way to get started with online audio editing. Using…
A lot of businesses have moved or are moving to an open plan layout for their office space. This movement is under the assumption that social encounters are more valuable than deep work. However, recent studies have shown that this is not the case. In fact, employees in open plan offices are interrupted more frequently,…
Coding in the classroom has never been easier now that the virtual console PICO-8 is available on the web. With PICO-8, students can program games in the lua programming language. The environment includes a graphics and sound editor, which makes it easy for students to create their own games. Additionally, PICO-8 is available on Chromebooks,…
Now that everyone is rushing back to in-person learning, it is time to evaluate how we can use online learning in the future. Unfortunately, for a lot of teachers and students, the view of online learning was that it was a disaster. But online learning did work for some. The focus of what we can…
I’ve mentioned Kapwing before, but now they gone and made all of their tools free for students and educators. Kapwing is a video and photo editing online platform that was created in 2016. The company started by charging for its services, but it has now decided to make all of its tools free for education…
There are times when you will want to share a website to your students as a PDF. It’s a good way to make sure they are all looking at the same information. Once they have a PDF, they can mark it up and add their own notes to the page. However, getting a clean PDF…
In the past, I’ve talked about organizing my files by school year. At the beginning of the year, I would create a folder named after the school year. For example, last year’s folder was named 21-22. Inside of the folder I created the following folders: Documents Pictures Movies Downloads Any files I would re-use from…
