Comic, stacked tags, and Google Slides closed captioning – Top 3 of the Week
{Comic} Things you don’t see anymore Vivaldi – stacked tabs Automatic closed captioning coming to Google Slides […]
Academics vs Fortnite
Hours after her son returned to school, April McElrath of Smyrna, Delaware, posted to a Facebook group she’d joined for help and support. “He tried to start a game before school!!!” McElrath wrote, posting a picture of her sheepishly smiling son Marcus, 11, to the group for parents of children obsessed with the video […]
Using physics to flip a water bottle
The water bottle flipping craze, in which a partially filled bottle of water is flipped and magically lands upright, swept the globe a couple of years ago. Now a group of Dutch scientists has designed a classroom demo version of the feat, described in a recent paper in the American Journal of Physics. It is […]
The math teacher and drill based math instruction
A math program that endorses drills and pain as the foundational element of math instruction (rather than a supporting element) and as a prerequisite for creative mathematical thought (rather than a co-requisite) inhibits the student and the teacher both, diminishing the student’s interest in producing that creativity and the teacher’s ability to notice it. Source: Drill-Based […]
Amazon story telling app Amazon Rapids is now free
Amazon’s chat-style fiction app, Amazon Rapids, is now free, giving parents and kids unlimited access to the hundreds of stories in its catalog. Previously, the company charged $2.99 monthly for that privilege. Some of these stories will also be available to listen to through Alexa’s Storytime mode, which was launched last summer. Source: Amazon’s kid-friendly storytelling […]
Vivaldi – stacked tabs
One of my favorite features of Vivaldi is the ability to stack tabs. Have you ever been working in your browser and wished to group your tabs by project? With tab stacks, you can. I usually have a stack with Gmail and Google Calendar, and another stack with Google Drive and open files from Google […]
Automatic closed captioning coming to Google Slides
Recently, an internal hackathon led us to work on a project that is deeply personal. Upon observing that presentations can be challenging for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to follow along, we both teamed up with the idea to add automated closed captions to G Suite’s presentation tool, Google Slides. This work […]
NASA eBooks, Comic, and Mac writing apps – Top 3 of the Week
Free ebooks from NASA {Comic} Teacher Simulator 9 Apps and tricks for writing on the Mac from MakeUseOf […]