Locking Google Slides objects, a comic, and a meme – Top 3 of the Week
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https://eduk8.me/2020/09/comic-students-being-students/
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On Monday, my PocketCHIP arrived! What is a PocketCHIP? It is a touchscreen and keyboard device for the CHIP $9 single board computer that also provides a battery and external access to the input/output pins on the CHIP. In the simplest terms, anything that you would do with a Raspberry Pi you can do with a CHIP,…
There are a couple of reasons why you may want to save tabs in Google Chrome. One would be if you wanted to share a list of websites with students. These two extensions will give you a list of open tabs which includes the page title and web address. Another reason would be to save…
Amid a flurry of interest in the latest panacea for student disengagement, a recent CNN report asked, Is personalized learning the future of school? The report, based upon a $133 million school startup known as AltSchool, is a response to a legitimate concern identified by former Google executive, Max Ventilla. The ambition to make the…
Much like Skitch before it, Annotable gives you some pretty cool markup tools for pictures. My favorite is the magnifying loupe, allowing you to shift focus to a particular part of an image and magnify it. Annotable is free with in-app purchases for more tools.
Booktrack is a service that adds a soundtrack to ebooks. As you read the book, there can be added music and sound effects to enhance the immersion level of the book. Once you sign up, you can select one of their books to read, which is pretty cool in itself. The magic happens when you…
Almost 20 years ago, when Paul Curtis was a social studies teacher at the just-opened New Technology High School in Napa, Calif., there wasn’t much “tech” to support project-based learning. “We didn’t even give the kids email addresses back then,” he chuckles. Even now, Curtis, Director of Curriculum for the New Tech Network, is confident…