Quitting, comic, and the Vivaldi Browser – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2018/09/for-a-teachers-mental-health-why-dont-you-quit/ https://eduk8.me/2018/09/comic-three-weeks-in/ https://eduk8.me/2018/09/vivaldi-browser-my-new-favorite-browser/
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For a teacher’s mental health, why don’t you quit?
“I had regular panic attacks, felt like I would faint at any moment walking down the street and was always on the verge of tears,” she says, adding that, “the job literally made me sick — my health had gotten to a point that was unlivable, unworkable and a mess.” So she quit her…
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Nintendo’s Labo Vehicle Kit for the Switch is being released today
Despite coming from Nintendo, however, the first batch of Labo kits weren’t exactly great games; they were simple toys without much lasting appeal. If you weren’t into learning rudimentary coding or endlessly fishing a virtual sea, there wasn’t much to keep you coming back. Even with two young kids in the house, my Labo kits…
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Managing Chrome tabs with the Tabs Outliner extension
Tabs Outliner for Google Chrome is a way to help managing Chrome tabs. Source: Tabs Outliner – Chrome Web Store Do you have a tab addiction? If you work a browser the same way I do, then you probably are also addicted to tabs. Tabs Outliner helps in managing Chrome tabs. There is no shortage of…
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Subscribe to literary classics with DailyLit
Subscribe to literary classics with DailyLit. Source: Welcome to DailyLit Last week I mentioned Serial Reader, and iOS app that drip feeds you a public domain classic every day. DailyLit brings you the same, but through your email. This may work better for your students, especially if they do not have iOS devices. One big difference between DailyLit and…
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The Vivaldi browser – My new favorite web browser
The Vivaldi browser – My new favorite web browser. I’m always willing to try different browsers. Since I spend most of my time on the computer in the browser, I’m always excited to try a different browser if it will make me faster and more efficient. That’s part of the reason I don’t store passwords or…
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Comic, MS Office templates, and a customized Chrome start page with iChrome – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2018/09/comic-the-true-meaning-of-labor-day/ https://eduk8.me/2018/09/microsoft-office-templates-for-teachers-use-them-in-google-docs/ https://eduk8.me/2018/09/create-your-own-chrome-homepage-with-ichrome/
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Learning hard things
In the real world, there’s no textbook or curriculum. There’s no way to practice. There’s no source of continuous feedback. There are no teachers — it’s just you and whoever you can convince to help you. So how do you learn something no one can teach you? How do you become a world-class expert on something few…
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Archiving your digital life
To archive something to make sure it’s never lost, is important, but I have a different angle on shaving with your own Occam brand razor. Developing a process of managing all the stuff you create before it goes into the cloud, is not only about saving it from destruction, but more so, to make it…
