What Amazon uses instead of PowerPoint, a comic, and continuously scroll Google search results – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/05/jeff-bezos-ceo-and-founder-of-amazon-replaced-powerpoint-in-meetings-with-something-better/ https://eduk8.me/2018/05/comic-school-days-left/ https://eduk8.me/2018/05/continuously-scroll-your-google-search-results-with-the-infinite-scroll-for-google-chrome-add-on/
Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, replaced PowerPoint in meetings with something better
In his 2018 annual letter, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos repeated his rule that PowerPoint is banned in executive meetings. What Bezos replaced it with provides even more valuable insight for entrepreneurs and leaders. Source: Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint in Meetings. His Replacement Is Brilliant | Inc.com I shared on Twitter this week about our…
Being obsessed about the numbers won’t make you successful
More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organisations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it ‘metric fixation’. The key components of metric fixation are the belief that it is possible – and desirable – to replace professional judgment (acquired through personal experience and talent) with numerical indicators…
Use Make Beliefs Comix to create comics
Source: Make Beliefs Comix – Create Your Own Comix! Make Beliefs Comix is an easy to use website that allows students to create comics. The site doesn’t require a login to create, which is a plus. Unfortunately, the site doesn’t offer you a way to save your creation in a format that allows you to collaborate…
Linux is coming to Chromebooks!
A ton of announcements came out of the Google I/O 2018 keynote yesterday, but the most exciting is that Linux is coming to Chromebooks! I mentioned two years ago what a game changer Android apps will be for Chromebooks, and this is even bigger! Students will be able to edit videos, create and modify graphics…
Continuously scroll your Google search results with the Infinite Scroll for Google Chrome add-on
Infinite Scroll for Google is an add-on for Google Chrome which takes the paging out of your search results. As you reach the bottom of the page, Infinite Scroll for Google will continually add the additional search results.
Blabberize, searching sites, and coding – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/05/create-talking-images-with-blabberize/ https://eduk8.me/2018/05/search-the-current-site-using-google-with-the-search-the-current-site-chrome-extension/ https://eduk8.me/2018/05/coding-is-about-understanding-technology/
OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to save the world. Where is it now?
It was supposed to be the laptop that saved the world. In late 2005, tech visionary and MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte pulled the cloth cover off a small green computer with a bright yellow crank. The device was the first working prototype for Negroponte’s new nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, dubbed “the green…