You can now add questions to Google Classroom for quick polls. There are two answer types, short answer and multiple choice. As it is for polling, there isn’t any option for automatic feedback with the correct answer. Unfortunately, Google still hasn’t added any sort of organizational tool to group items in the classroom or organize…
The Real Value of Computer Science Providing students with open ended opportunities to think critically (with or without coding) creates problem solvers and independence, both of which are required skills for today’s industry. Experts have branded a set of skills as “21 Century Competencies” which include computational thinking. Coding also supports spatial sense and makes…
I’ve been playing around with gamifying my classroom this semester. After looking at Classcraft I decided I wanted something a little simpler, so I put together a Google Sheet to keep track of XP, AP, and HP. The problem came when I needed to add or subtract a stat from a student. Entering the data…
Browsers for iOS devices seem to proliferate like so many tribbles, but since they are bound by Apple’s rules, their performance is basically the same. It’s the features that differentiate them. After reading A Few Nice iCab Tricks for 2016, I abruptly spent my $1.99 for iCab Mobile and have been a happy camper ever since….
Use Google Drawings for brain-friendly visual notetaking | Ditch That Textbook A powerful way to take advantage of that is visual notetaking — recording ideas using both images and text. Some call it doodling, and many have gotten “in trouble” for doodling in class even though there were cognitive benefits of it over standard notetaking….
While Apple whats OS X to move to the iOS world of window management, where everything is either full screen or split screen, Moom by Many Tricks offers an alternative to manage your windows. And for the $10 Many Tricks is asking for the software, it’s a steal. How would you like your window? Moom adds…
Homebrew is a great way to easily install all sorts of command line goodies as easily as brew install. I use it to install programs such as Pandoc (convert between several different text formats or create ebooks) or ImageMagick (manipulate images from the command line). Tonight I went to install Mosh (remote access command line client), but was greeted by a series of…
Sharing: Google Saves (new feature for Google Images, via @cogdogblog) It’s still not showing up for my Google Apps accounts. 🙁 Create interactive multimedia and eBooks in Google Slides A post from almost a year ago makes the top 3! Neat tips on creating interactive multimedia with Google Slides. Sharing: Project based learning should be…
Worlds of Learning | 30 Ways to Create the Conditions to Inspire in a Makerspace I recently took my students into New York City to meet with the team from Buncee. In addition to being an amazing multimedia storytelling tool, Buncee has an incredibly passionate and committed group of people on their team. They spent time talking to…
Pre-orders for first Ubuntu Tablet went on sale on Monday with a shipping date of mid-April. I hesitated for maybe 10 minutes before putting in an order for the high resolution model ($340). I ran Ubuntu for about 18 months before going back to OS X, so I’m already comfortable with the operating system, but why…