Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Pedagogy Tom Mullaney looks in to using Google Chat for collaboration and relationship building instead of email. Google Chat Spaces is an underused tool, it…
Checker Plus for Gmailâ„¢ – is my new favorite Chrome extension! At first, the power of Checker Plus for Gmailâ„¢ – is understated. Sure, there is a new icon of an envelope in the toolbar, and when you receive an email, the icon changes to show the number of unread messages. That’s all fine and…
Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success; it still depends on their parents’ economic, socio-cultural and educational resources. This contradicts a commonly held view that these days that our education system has developed enough to give everyone a fighting chance. Source: Educational success among children of similar cognitive ability depends…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. I once gave a talk titled “Using technology to procrastinate”. An idea that I have used since my sophomore year in high school. We had a big research paper due, and it had…
Source: Lospec If you have students that are working on programming their own game, or maybe they just want to create some clip art for a presentation, Lospec provides an online editor that doesn’t require a log in. There are also tutorials and other materials to help you or your students travel down the pixel…
Twitter, like most things in life, can be a good thing or bad thing. I’m going to focus on its strengths and the good things today as they pertain to using Twitter as a teacher. Personal learning network We have people in our buildings that are a good source of information and advice, but sometimes…