I get asked a lot about uses for the Raspberry Pi. Well, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has you covered. Hello World is an online magazine for educational Raspberry Pi users. Available for free as a PDF, it is published three times a year with articles for the making teacher.
The magazine is even a better deal if you are a teacher in the UK because they will ship you a physical copy of the magazine for free!
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here. Source: Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way It’s a long read, but well…
Source: Health icons I love me some free icons, and Health icons has a ton! Don’t let the name fool you, because although there are a lot of icons that involve medical items, there are also a ton of icons for other things. Here are some of the health icons: But there are also: And…
Source: Free Stock Photos – Simply Beautiful, Creative, Professional | Icons8 It seems that free stock photos are available from everywhere, so why am I mentioning yet another one? Well, when I start to recognize Unsplash photos on websites and in videos, I realize that sometimes you need to mix it up. Moose is yet…
As part of the White House’s ConnectED initiative Safari Books Online has teamed with O’Reilly Media to offer free access to hundreds of eBooks. To access the books you will need a verified Edmodo or Clever account (I haven’t figured out what they mean by a “personal” log in that is an option). One downside is…
Source: unDraw unDraw works a lot like the illustrations gallery on ManyPixels. You select a topic and a color, and unDraw will show you matching clipart that is open source and free to use in any project.
But giving my students choice and allowing them to being curious learners was hard work. In fact, sometimes I was still really ineffective at guiding the learning that was taking place in my classroom. I tried many different project-based learning frameworks, embraced the inquiry cycle, and tweaked my own idea of how to structure this…