Source: Backpack for Google Drive – a student-centered, Google-based approach to student portfolios. This could be a nice way to use Google’s products in the creation of student portfolios. The biggest issue I see is that they are breaking my number one rule when dealing with vendors, no pricing information is available. If I have […]
But! A recent NYPL project has paid for the already-digitized registration records to be marked up as XML. (I was not involved, BTW, apart from saying “yes, this would work” four years ago.) Now for anything that’s unambiguously a “book”, we have a parseable record of its pre-1964 interactions with the Copyright Office: the initial registration and any potential renewal. […]
3 rules on not reading off of your presentation slides The value relationship between the teacher (employee) and the school (employer) Learn coding and create an interactive text adventure with Adventuron […]
Asymmetrical Benefit Masquerades as “We’re All in this Together”. Source: Good Companies Don’t Ask You to Share. They Make You Want To – DEV Community 👩💻👨💻 After reading this article I’m reminded of two things. The quote, which I’m going to paraphrase because I can’t find it or the author, “Great leaders don’t force you […]
Chase says that ads created by Persado’s machine learning performed better than ads written by humans, with a higher percent of consumers clicking on them—more than twice as many in some cases. The difference can be as simple as what word choice resonates with consumers. One digital ad written by humans read, “Access cash from the equity […]
Source: Adventuron – itch.io I’m a big fan of interactive fiction, and Adventuron is another tool that can be used to create interactive fiction. But, the fun doesn’t stop there. There is also Adventuron Classroom that walks you through coding an interactive fiction game. I used the word coding because that it what you or […]
Google Calendar really doesn’t give you very good control over the visible calendars. In fact, you can hide all calendars except for one, but that’s about it. I would love the ability to show different groups of calendars, but until that happens, I have a work around that will give you a bookmark to one […]
You’ve been in that meeting. In fact, as soon as you read the title, you knew exactly what I was talking about. You’ve all experienced a presentation where the person in the front of the room stands at a podium, or before a large screen, and simply recites for you a series of bullet-points on the screen. […]
