Slashdot linked to an article at The Guardian where Lawrence ‘Larry’ Luckham to his camera to work one day in 1967. He brought a camera into work to capture a day in the life at a company churning out some of the biggest technological advances of the decade The article brought out some interesting theories on the state…
An option to control the flow of email in Gmail from students is to have your Google Apps for Education (GAFE) administrator add a footer to student emails. In the footer, the administrator could put a hashtag such as #studentofSCHOOL where SCHOOL is your school district or building. The idea is that the tag is something unique. Your…
Although Google Slides has a bunch of good looking templates, after awhile the presentations all start looking a lot alike. I put together a short video on how to modify an existing template and make it your own, so your presentations have your own blend of flair attached to it. After you create your own…
In the olden days, approximately a year or two ago, you could list your main Google Drive folder by last modified, and your most current files would show up at the top. For some reason, Google modified this so it always shows your folders first before your documents. What a pain. But, Google does offer…
Cub Linux (formerly Chromixium) is an Ubuntu Linux distribution focused on the open source browser Chromium to provide an operating environment much like Chromebooks. What that means is that after making a bootable USB drive, you can wipe out a laptop and make it act like a Chromebook. Notice that I say it “acts” like a…
When taking pictures with your smartphone, two tips come to mind: Don’t bother cropping before taking the picture Almost all smartphones use a digital zoom for zooming instead of an optical zoom. An optical zoom uses lenses to adjust the image being caught by the sensor, but since smartphones do not have the space for…
When Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the NSA spying, the term metadata came up. Metadata is the bits of information attached to a piece of intelligence. For example, a phone call has metadata data attached to it such as the date and time of the call, who was making the call, who received the call,…
After my post about using bookmarks and the bookmarks toolbar, Alving Trusty reminded me about protopage.com. Protopage lets you easily create a web page with links, RSS feeds, and other widgets for quick access. You can have your personal page of links that only you can see, but you can also set up other…
In the 1950s, the Air Force hire Lt. Gilbert S. Daniels to figure out the size of the average pilot. The Air Force was having issues with pilots dying in plane accidents, and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Lt. Daniels measured 4,063 pilots on 10 physical dimensions (height, chest circumference, etc.) and set up…
Yesterday I talked about using Google Forms and Google Slides for exit or entry tickets. One addition I like is adding a timer to Google slides in the form of a countdown timer. By adding a timer the students and you get a sense of completion for the current task or project. Without the timer it might…