I feel like my teachers always emphasized the importance of group work but kind of threw us to the wolves to figure out how to do it, especially when we are all supposed to be equal players with no manager to oversee the final product. Can you recommend any resources for how to do effective, professional group work among peers?
The Vivaldi browser – My new favorite web browser. I’m always willing to try different browsers. Since I spend most of my time on the computer in the browser, I’m always excited to try a different browser if it will make me faster and more efficient. That’s part of the reason I don’t store passwords or…
I’m not a big fan of yearly countdowns in December. What about posts in December? So, I’m doing my top 10 posts now, and there is one post from December that made the list. https://eduk8.me/2019/02/preceden-a-free-for-students-timeline-creator/ 0x0D Ways to Teach Like a Hacker https://eduk8.me/2019/02/another-option-to-quiet-youtube-df-tube-distraction-free-for-youtube/ https://eduk8.me/2019/01/an-entirely-free-9th-grade-computer-science-curriculum-from-carnegie-mellon-university/ https://eduk8.me/2019/01/workaround-for-verizon-customers-using-remind/ https://eduk8.me/2019/05/play-the-classic-version-of-minecraft-for-free-in-your-browser/ https://eduk8.me/2019/06/google-sheets-has-a-translate-function/ https://eduk8.me/2019/12/get-them-coding-with-tic-80/ https://eduk8.me/2019/09/the-note-taking-app-notion-is-now-free-for-college-students-and-educators/ https://eduk8.me/2019/10/ted-ed-has-a-new-youtube-series-for-kids-about-coding/
13 things to do before the first day of school #b2s The entire list is updated today! 16 Ideas for Student Projects using Google Docs, Slides, and Forms Pretty cool ideas! And can be used for other pieces of software. Highlight rows in Google Sheets with conditional formatting This is one of the most popular…
Thanks to the early focus on preventing cyberattacks, Chromebooks are also a hit with the security community. Security experts commonly recommend Chromebooks, whether it’s for the relative who somehow always ends up with spyware toolbars or the researcher heading to a hackers’ meetup. And it’s not about complicated encryption or security tricks — Chromebooks have…
Dropbox first teased Dropbox Paper back in August, and it has now been released for public use. I fired up the Dropbox website to try it out. To get started, click on the Paper link that shows on the left sidewhen logged into Dropbox, or visit https://paper.dropbox.com/. Your Dropbox Paper files are separate from your…
