Coding with dinosaurs, podcasting with Anchor, and videos with Rocketium – Top 3 for the week
https://eduk8.me/2018/02/coding-let-dinosaurs-teach-coding/ https://eduk8.me/2018/02/edtech-anchors-ease-use-just-got-better/ https://eduk8.me/2018/03/edtech-buzzfeed-like-video-creation-made-easy-rocketium/
{Leadership} Management techniques from Richard Branson – motivating employees
BRANSON: Well I mean, I think, I find that some American companies are anything but good at motivating people. And I find that hard to understand, because if you’ve got a happy, motivated group of people you’re working with, you can achieve anything. And you know, you can ride the good times together, you can…
{Edchat} Forgetting what we read… Or watch.
Pamela Paul’s memories of reading are less about words and more about the experience. “I almost always remember where I was and I remember the book itself. I remember the physical object,” says Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, who reads, it is fair to say, a lot of books. “I…
{Edtech} Buzzfeed like video creation made easy with Rocketium
Source: Rocketium | Quick video creation for social media Via: Rocketium Is Like A Video-Creation Tool For Dummies (& I Include Myself In That Description) | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… Wow, this is a very cool tool. Students can use their own clips and pictures or Rocketium’s copyright free library. Creations can also be collaboratively…
{Coding} Let Dinosaurs teach coding
The dinosaurs pair over Bluetooth to a new Jurassic World companion iOS / Android app, and kids can drag and drop code to make them do things. The robots can move, light up, make noise, or engage in different interactions. I particularly loved their dancing mode. Source: Dancing dinosaurs will teach your kid to code –…
{Edtech} Anchor’s ease of use just got better!
Source: Anchor – The easiest way to make a podcast I’ve mentioned Anchor before, but their latest update demanded another post. It is still free to use, and now you can use a web interface or a mobile app to record your audio. Each snippet of audio can be edited together to form a podcast, which…
Flashcards, Comic, and public speaking – Top 3 for the week
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{Coding} Sony’s 300 building block coding kit
Designed for kids ages eight and up, the Educator Kit contains over 300 building blocks and 30 hours of educational STEAM curriculum to teach kids Scratch, an introductory programming language on the KOOV app to control the robots they build. There’s 23 different robots you can make using pre-coded “Robot Recipes”, which are jumping-off points…