🔥 Digital Planning Stickers – Freebie Friday!
Back in February I fell down the rabbit hole of digital planners. As I watched YouTube videos on the planners, I was struck by how labor intensive it was to create the stickers. Well, it was time to teach like a hacker and automate the process. After a couple of hours, I had a script…
Introduction to Google Jamboard #YouTube
Google Jamboard is not quite the replacement for Explain Everything or SMARTNotebook, but it is a contender. Jamboard allows better collaboration between you and your students, and is especially beneficial for schools with touchscreen Chromebooks. I mention how to create graphic organizers in Google Slides, here’s my video on how to do it.
Check out Google’s Fact Check Explorer
Source: Fact Check Tools Google has a cool Fact Check Explorer, which allows you to enter a search term and it will show how that term is portrayed online and what facts are true. This would be a great starting point when investigating sources of information.
Adblocking for teachers #YouTube
Ads are a necessary evil online, but sometimes they can be overbearing and affect the usability of a site. In this video I cover installing and using the uBlock Origin extension to block ads when browsing and in YouTube.
A comic, a meme, and copying Google Sites – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2021/04/being-outside-comic/ https://eduk8.me/2021/04/for-those-about-to-teach-eduk8meme/ https://eduk8.me/2021/04/how-to-create-a-google-sites-template-or-copy-a-google-site-for-students-youtube/
Scheduling and getting things done
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. On the school/work front, I’m trying a new productivity technique. I’ve always had a To Do list, and I would mark things with @today for items that needed to be completed that day….
I had forgotten how much classical music I learned from Bugs Bunny
Source: How Kids Learned Classical Music From Old Cartoons Read on to see how much our classical music education was shaped by Looney Toons and Bugs Bunny. Be sure to check out all of the examples in the article, there are some great ones in there! Unfortunately, they missed one of the biggest, the Ride…