Source: Digital Design Platform for Education | InVision InVision provides prototyping services for applications, students can use the website to collaborate on mobile apps and get an idea how the app would work. This would be geared toward the higher grade levels, especially students who may be interested in a user interface or programming career….
Source: Social Media Time Alternatives – Omni Calculator I view social media the same as candy. It’s nice to have as a treat, but if it is all you do, then your going to have negative consequences. Here is a calculator that shows what you could accomplish if you weren’t mindlessly scrolling through your feeds….
As a teenager, Pete Etchells lost his father to motor neuron disease, and often, when the anniversary of his death rolled around, he found solace in playing video games, like hunting for the elusive Time Lost Proto-Drake in World of Warcraft. Gaming started as an escape, but over time, he found those virtual worlds helped…
Source: Voiceflow I signed up with Voiceflow to get a feel for the tool, and it is pretty cool. Voiceflow allows you to create an assistant for Alexa or Google, all without learning any code. It’s a little like scratch, but with an elegant feel. There are multiple controls and blocks you can use. What…
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….
