13 Ways to make tech work for you – CREATE 2017 Conference Presentation My presenation and links from the CREATE Conference. Help students develop self-control with these 6 techniques Learning self-control. Vookmark is an easy way to bookmark videos on the web Quick way to save links to videos.
2. Bring in an Expert Often a third-party voice will give you credibility and support you could not otherwise gain inside your organization. Further, a recognized industry authority lends gravitas and weight to your claims. Source: The Top 10 Ways to Get Executive Buy-In for Your Training Program | eLearning Blog Number two really bums me…
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That’s because, according to research published this week in the journal Child Development, children as young as three and a half years old understand and value the obligations that accompany joint commitments. The researchers found that children who abandon a cooperative activity for an apparently selfish reason tend to prompt more resentment from their peers than…
Today I will be presenting at the CREATE Conference. Here is my presentation along with the links to everything discussed. Presentation links: Keyboard shortcuts: Pop up keyboard shortcuts in Gmail, on a Chromebook, and more New freebie – Chromebook Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet ⓔ My favorite Gmail keyboard shortcuts Speed up your iPhone and iPad…
Recap is an online service focused on one ideal, to give questions their own place. Recap allows students to ask questions, to which the teacher will respond in what Recap calls journeys. Looks like the site is free to use, as long as you don’t charge others for access to your journey. This looks to be…
Bored to distraction? No wonder I’m so distracted. No wonder we all are. The problem isn’t technology per se, but the expectations it has engendered: a steady stream of entertainment and stimulation. Or, as Bertrand Russell — who lived through the invention of electric lights, radio, and television — put it: “We are less bored than our ancestors were,…
So next time you’re faced with a “data-driven” scenario do this: instead of looking for the answers the data provides, look for the questions it generates. Source: If You Want to Be Creative, Don’t Be Data Driven – Microsoft Design – Medium Data always has its purpose and reason for being collected, but blindly doing…
Totally different paths taken with the opening up of GPS data vs education data. Yet all of the research (and the debate about education data) has created the illusion of ubiquitous education data. Instead, in practice, the parallels between education and GPS fall apart in some key ways. First, while the decision to end selective…
What is a VPN? It is a way to protect your personal information after it leaves your device. What is a VPN and why would you want one? When you access a website, your traffic travels over several different networks before it reaches its destination. For most people, traffic goes from their device over wifi…