Exploring Graphing with Kindergarten using Google Sheets Use this Google Sheets template with Kindergarteners to explore graphing. Students use physical manipulatives to count and then represent the number in a graph. What an awesome collection of templates to use with Kindergarteners in Google Sheets! These could be used at the higher grade levels too. Do…
Google Saves Oh, Google, there you go again. Sometime since this morning, when I searched Google Images for my blog post, and later in the day (now), when I did it again, I saw two buttons that were not there before… What a great feature to add. It looks like they have grander visions for…
23 Awesome Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom I have put together a list of 23 Apps that Integrate with Google Classroom, making it even easier to create lessons and announcements with your favorite apps and resources. Last summer, Google opened the API for Google Classroom which means that other applications could connect or integrate…
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The implications of Lee Sedol’s defeat by Google’s AlphaGo Lee Sedol has won game 4, so humanity is safe… For now. Sharing videos without Youtube by using Google Drive Google Drive is pretty amazing. Two big updates for Google Docs – epub export and outline mode ePub publishing is something I’ve been wanting for years!
I spent an hour and a half yesterday helping a user get started with Google Apps for Education (GAFE) and thought to myself, “boy, it would be nice to collect some resources for this so I don’t have to repeat myself”. So here it is, a few resources to help you get started with GAFE….
You can now read the entirety of sci-fi magazine If for free According to BoingBoing, all 176 issues of If have been made available via the Internet Archive, including the ones edited by Hugo Award-winning Frederik Pohl. His greatest contribution to the magazine was, perhaps, the introduction of the “If-first” series, which showcased new authors. A number of…
Matt Bucy on Vimeo has put together a cut of The Wizard of Oz where he has rearranged every instance of every word in alphabetical order. It’s quite fascinating to watch, and some of the scenes with the same word are quite humorous when put together in this order.
Here are some resources I’ve found to help teach binary. Why would you teach binary? The binary (base 2) numbering system is the backbone of almost every electronic device on the planet. George Boole and his concept of Boolean logic was one of the most important advances that led to the information age. All of…
Poverty stunts IQ in the US but not in other developed countries In a new meta-analysis of 14 psychology studies from the past few decades, researchers found that the strength of poverty’s pull differed by country, with US poverty providing the only forceful yank among developed nations. The authors, who published the results in Psychological…