Source: YouTube Captions Search – Chrome Web Store Here’s a pretty cool extension to help your students locate information in YouTube videos. Once the extension is installed, you can search for specific words in videos that have closed captioning or subtitles. It is especially helpful when you are looking for a specific piece of information…
Source: Windows 11 SE laptops arrive to take on Chromebooks in schools – The Verge Competition is good, and right now Chromebooks could use a good competitor. Windows 11 SE laptops could be a good option for schools, but only if Microsoft makes them easy to manage. Chromebooks are great in the management department. Need to…
Source: Bookmark It – Chrome Web Store Bookmark It is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to bookmark and comment on the bookmark in a YouTube video. The bookmarks and comments are not shareable, so the extension is useful in the classroom when a teacher wants to use a YouTube video in the…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. In G. K. Chesterton.s 1929 book The Thing, he writes: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be…
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This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. I stumbled on a YouTube video about calming down a classroom, which reminded me about this article, Why You Should Stop Yelling at Your Kids. When I started teaching I had a problem…