NASA eBooks, Comic, and Mac writing apps – Top 3 of the Week
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Weaponized PowerPoint
GEICO’s latest commercial takes aim at narcissistic supervillains: “As long as evil villains reveal their plans, you can count on GEICO saving folks money. Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.” To be sure, GEICO is poking fun at the iconic villain trope that, by now, we all know gives our…
Free ebooks from NASA
Free ebooks from NASA. Source: NASA e-Books | NASA NASA has a multitude of eBooks available, cover aeronautics and space travel. Every ebook I checked was available in PDF, but several were also available in .MOBI for use on Kindle devices and .EPUB for other ebook readers and portable devices.
Create interactive picture books and stories with Elementari
Create interactive picture books and stories with Elementari. Source: Elementari: Write, share, read interactive stories Via: “Elementari” Might Have Potential As A Story-Creating Tool For Students | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… What a cool site! They supply the tools, which include graphics, sounds, and music, and you supply the story. The stories can be like…
Where in the world is… The Learning Company?
…Both Reader Rabbitand Cluefinders were the work of The Learning Company (TLC), a dominant player in the realm of educational software during its peak in the late 1980s and ’90s. At a certain point, TLC owned pretty much every computer game that mattered to millennials: The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, even Oregon Trail….
9 Apps and tricks for writing on the Mac from MakeUseOf
Writing is an enjoyable activity, but you can really hamper yourself if you don’t have the proper tools. Whether you can’t find the motivation to write, have trouble collecting your ideas, or struggle with grammar, the right apps can really help. Source: Write Better on Your Mac With These 9 Apps and Tricks Any article that…
Fact checking, comic, and Edtech – Top 3 of the Week
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Study Reconfirms that Internet Content Filters are Expensive and Don’t Work
In a paper entitled Internet Filtering and Adolescent Exposure to Online Sexual Material, Oxford Internet Institute researchers Victoria Nash and Andrew Przybylski found that Internet filters rarely work to keep adolescents away from online porn. “It’s important to consider the efficacy of Internet filtering,” said Dr, Nash. “Internet filtering tools are expensive to develop and…
How does tech affect the brain and reading?
For anyone who has ever been a reader, there’s much to sympathize with in Maryanne Wolf’s Reader, Come Home. The UCLA neuroscientist, a great lover of literature, tries to read Hermann Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, an old favorite, only to realize that she finds him boring and too complex. She wonders why he ever won a Nobel….