Comic, Vivaldi web panels, and the greatest demo – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2018/12/comic-christmas-wishes/
https://eduk8.me/2018/12/vivaldi-adding-a-web-panel/
https://eduk8.me/2018/12/the-greatest-demo-ever-is-50-years-old/
As educators, we’ve spent years attending classes, participating in workshops, going to conferences, and continuing our education. The more we learn, the more we create and collect. Because of the time and effort that we spend developing such rich resources, it becomes challenging to let some of them go. I’ve struggled with this for years….
Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances — like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints — as sources for meaning and joy….
Running Windows on a Chromebook with Paperspace. Quick summary Using Paperspace.com I can run a full version of Windows remotely. It does cost, and it does require a fast connection. The downsides are outweighed by the convenience of filling in some of the uses that are still difficult or impossible to do on a Chromebook…
I’ve used Polleverywhere a couple of times for presentations, and sli.do looks a little like Polleverywhere, but with a couple of nice additions. Sli.do bases the presentations on events, and each event under the free plan can have 3 polls, and up to 1,000 participants. But, moving past the polls, participants can ask questions and…
Sleep! is part 13 of 13 Ways Teachers can Hack their learning. From a motivation point of view, this is the easiest hack on the list. Practicality, however, gets in the way. Starting in August, teachers start to become more and more sleep deprived. They may not notice it, but it’s there. You’ll see the…
In Paul Tough’s new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering “noncognitive”—or character—abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom. It’s an observation that has won attention and admirers such as New York Times columnist David Brooks. But what has been left unsaid is how our…