The need for conferences

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…

Free online activities and handouts are available from Mr. Nussbaum

Free online activities and handouts are available from Mr. Nussbaum

Source: Mr. Nussbaum – Educational Games, Activities, Resources for Kids Ages 5-14 and Teacher Tools. If you teach grades 1-6, then check out Mr. Nussbaum’s website. There are tons of resources available for free and also a subscription model. What makes Mr. Nussbaum’s website pretty cool is that he offers not only online activities, but…

Chrome OS has stalled out

Chrome OS has stalled out

We live in a world where the Chromebook, and Chrome OS, should be thriving. But increasingly, it looks like Google’s cloud-first laptop platform has hit a dead end, and I’m not sure there are many available detours that can get it back on track. Source: Chrome OS has stalled out

100,000 images for the Paris Museum of Art are now available online.

100,000 images for the Paris Museum of Art are now available online.

Paris Musées announced yesterday that it is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks in the city’s museums as Open Access — free of charge and without restrictions — via its Collections portal. Paris Musées is a public entity that oversees the 14 municipal museums of Paris, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville…