Happy New Year 2017!

Preschool, kindergarten, and pre-k teachers are using the StoryBots educational games and alphabet songs to make learning fun in classrooms around the world! Source: StoryBots Classroom: FREE for Teachers StoryBots is a collection of books, games, videos and more for the pre-K to 1st grade classrooms. The company behind StoryBots is JibJab, the 45 person…
I’ve been doing more work on a Chromebook ever since I bought the Flip, and to take screenshots I’ve been using the Nimbus extension. But, Nimbus can’t take pictures of anything outside of the browser window, so I’ve been looking for a replacement and found out that ChromeOS has two options built in to take…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. (or, “we’ve always done it that way”) One of the trickiest aspects of education is hard it is to measure performance. Gut feelings and anecdotes may “feel” correct, but can also be wildly…
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Last May, I backed a project on Kickstarter1 for the CHIP computer. At $9, the CHIP computer is the cheapest single board computer (SBC) that is fully functional. The Raspberry Pi project released the Pi Zero at $5 during the past year, but it isn’t fully functional since you still have to buy an SD…
I like toys. Especially tech toys. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that, as long I keep the toys in check. Not everything needs a technological solution, and even when it does, there are always multiple ways of solving the problem. What is really interesting is seeing what others do with technology. A…