New Year’s Eve Greetings

Audiobooks are a valid listening component, providing rich exposure to sophisticated spoken words in school and at home. We’ve seen evidence of this in the work we do at Tales2go, but wanted to be more rigorous in our approach and have data to support our argument. We contracted with WestEd, a leading educational research nonprofit,…
It’s another year for the Ohio Educational Technology Conference so it is time to update my conference checklist! 1. Set up a hashtag shortcut on my phone Under iOS, keyboard shortcuts can be set up to speed up typing. For the #oetc18 hashtag, I will set up a keyboard shortcut for ooo, which will expand…
https://eduk8.me/2020/04/eduk8meme-learning-google-classroom/ https://eduk8.me/2020/04/find-music-for-your-school-multimedia-projects-at-digccmixter/ https://eduk8.me/2020/04/record-audio-in-a-browser-with-online-voice-recorder/
When the visual and performing arts, the musical and recording arts, and the theatrical and graphical arts are seen as mere luxuries or add-ons within the walls of a school, powerful forces are thereby prevented from transforming routine schooling into a renaissance of learning.But who has the time or the funding to allow that to…
Here’s a quick tip on copying a bunch of CDs or DVDs to your computer when running OS X. This comes in really handy since Macs don’t come with optical drives any more, and you may want to bring some resources along with you on your computer. I recently copied 34 CDs of clipart to…
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. No one has the answers to everything. Some people few this as a sign of weakness, but it is actually a sign of strength. By admitting you need to look something up, you…