📷 Ed photos of the week for April 6th, 2023
Ed photos for the week Do you keep a curiosity collection? This week’s sketch: The Teacher Librarian: Your Inquiry Superhero!
Quickly create pie charts, histograms, and line graphs online
Use Pie Chart Maker to create a Pie Chart for free with easy to use tools and download the Pie Chart as jpg or png or svg file. The same company also has Histogram Maker and Line Graph Maker. The three tools work very much the same so I’m going to just demonstrate Pie Chart…
Scanning documents directly to Google Drive (or other cloud storage) with an iPhone
I struggled with this, jumping through hoops with the Notes app until I found out that I can scan directly to Google Drive with the Files app. Android users can gloat to their iPhone brethren since the Google Drive app on Android can scan directly. These directions will work with any cloud storage service, as…
📱 Happy birthday to the cellphone, new features for Chrome and Classroom, policing AI, and more – Of bits and bytes for April 3, 2023
Happy birthday to the cellphone! It was April 3, 1973, when the first cellphone call was made. Fifty years later and I’ve called someone on my cellphone once in the past 3 months. I use my phone more for ordering fast food, posting silly pics, and messaging than for calling. Internet Travels Of bits and…
Using email filters to add tasks to your todo list
I previously mentioned using Gmail filters to quickly create notes or track what you’ve completed. However, what about tasks? Read on to learn how to create a to do list that lives in a folder in your email. Although I describe the steps on how to do this in Gmail, the concept works with any…
Word processing with Canva Docs
Canva has added Canva Docs, a way to use Canva as a word processor. What are Canva Docs Canva is an online design tool used for creating all sorts of multimedia projects such as presentations, flyers, and movies. They’ve taken those tools and added word processing features. You can now create stunning documents using the…
🤖 Perils of AI editing, for the love of reading, and more – Of bits and bytes for March 27, 2023
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week “If you’re a great person, why do you want to work for somebody you can’t learn anything from?” Steve Jobs There are some Steve Jobs…
📷 Ed photos of the week for 2023-03-23
Ed photos for the week Keeping Appointments with Yourself – George Couros “Children’s books are engines for empathy.” “Teaching Is About the Messy Work of Being Human. Here’s How to Embrace It”
Teacher and principal email scams
No, your principal, superintendent, nor fellow teacher is going to ask you to purchase gift cards through an email. E-mail and phishing scams It seems like every so often one of our teachers will get an email supposedly from their principal or our superintendent, saying that they are unavailable to be called or texted at…
Helping our ADHD students
Jessica McCabe has chronicled her lifelong struggle with ADHD on her YouTube channel where she demonstrates the struggles of ADHD (neurodivergent) people and how neurotypicals can help. ADHD and neurodiversity Neurotypicals are those who’s brain functions at what society calls normal, while neurodiverse people are those whose brains work differently. ADHD is one of the…