Emoji clipart, Gmail search, and free biodiversity images – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/02/easy-clipart-with-emojis/ https://eduk8.me/2020/02/search-gmail-faster-with-search-chips/ https://eduk8.me/2020/02/the-biodiversity-heritage-library-has-150000-images-and-sketches-available-for-free/
Before sounding the alarm, understand the technology
The UK’s National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord. Issued by the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (WMROCU) via local area councils, the poster in question lists a slack handful of common…
The Biodiversity Heritage Library has 150,000 images and sketches available for free
Source: About BHL – Information about the Biodiversity Heritage Library Their Flickr album is probably not the best way to find images, but their Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal has a search feature. The publications are pretty high level, so the site is more of a resource for teachers and high schoolers instead of elementary students.
Search Gmail faster with search chips
We’re introducing search chips in Gmail, an easier way to sort and filter search results to find exactly what you’re looking for faster. For example, you can search a colleague’s name and further narrow your results by selecting search chips like attachment type (Text document, Spreadsheet, PDF) or a specific timeframe. You can also filter…
Sheetscon, ezgif, and free activities & handouts – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/02/free-online-conference-for-google-sheets-sheetscon-2020/ https://eduk8.me/2020/02/create-animated-gifs-and-crop-video-with-ezgif/ https://eduk8.me/2020/02/free-online-activities-and-handouts-are-available-from-mr-nussbaum/
The need for conferences
What I want to say is that in the span of my career little has changed or advanced about the ways of academic conference activity. The very first one I attended in 1992 baffled me– a room full of people watching a speaker at a lectern read slides about the need to change the way…