New teachers, pixel art, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/12/how-do-you-onboard-new-teachers/ https://eduk8.me/2020/12/create-pixel-art-with-wait-for-it-pixalart-com/ https://eduk8.me/2020/12/goals-for-break-comic/
How do you onboard new teachers?
In early 2020 I was tapped to design an onboarding program for three new Instructional Designers that would be added to our team in the coming months. I decided to take a multi-modal approach to designing the onboarding experience, balancing consistent, online, low-touch eLearning experiences with high-touch, rich, interactive, learner-centered constructivist activities. Now that it’s…
Create pixel art with.. Wait for it… Pixalart.com!
Source: Pixilart – Free Online Art Community and Pixel Art Tool Here’s a very cool drawing tool that students can use without creating an account. That doesn’t mean they can’t create account, Pixilart supports creating accounts with Facebook, Twitter, or Google logins in addition to allowing accounts to be created with only an email. Pixilart…
A Meme, Drive File Stream, a comic, and the tech behind the ballpoint pen – Top 3 of the Week (with bonus!)
https://eduk8.me/2020/12/zoom-calls-eduk8meme/ https://eduk8.me/2020/12/how-to-use-google-drive-file-stream-youtube/ And a bonus, two tied for 3rd place! https://eduk8.me/2020/12/focusing-comic/ https://eduk8.me/2020/12/the-ballpoint-pen/
The ballpoint pen
Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. Source: The cheap pen that changed writing forever – BBC Future A fascinating look at one of the best educational technology tools ever invented, the ballpoint pen. Whenever…