Create your own fantasy maps with these generators
Source: Maps Mania: Fantasy Map Generators Need to generate a city or land map for activities in your classroom? Then check out this list of Fantasy Map Generators
Create your own learning games online with Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges’ GameBuilder
Source: GameBuilder – Wisc-Online OER Via: Make An Amazing Number Of Different Learning Games With “GameBuilder” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… The questions for the games are multiple choice. GameBuilder would be a good way to have students “compete” in small groups or for when the students start to get burned out with yet another…
Edit a podcast by editing the text of the transcript
Source: SpeechBoard | Home | The easiest way to edit podcasts This looks really cool, and makes it a lot easier to remove all of the umms and extra words from a podcast. There is a 5MB upload limit, which for .mp3 is approximately 7-10 minutes depending on the quality. For macOS users, the Descript app…
The League of Legends videogame rank predicts IQ, study finds
Hundreds of millions of people play intellectually-demanding video games every day. What does individual performance on these games tell us about cognition? Here, we describe two studies that examine the potential link between intelligence and performance in one of the most popular video games genres in the world (Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas: MOBAs). Source: Exploring…
Thinking backwards to be successful
Your boss just messaged you saying she wants to talk tomorrow morning about the big idea you pitched at the weekly meeting. Great. Right? If you’re like most people, your brain will start firing on all cylinders at this point, formulating a plan of what you’re going to say, what materials or supporting research you…
Create 3D scans with your smartphone’s camera
Something many people don’t know is that these days you can 3d scan any object with just your phone camera. It’s called photogrammetry, it’s really cool… The idea behind photogrammetry is that you take lots of photos (50 to 1,000 to even more) from different angles of an object, left, right, up, down, front, behind…
G Suite rights, creativity, security – Top 3 post for the week
https://eduk8.me/2017/12/signing-away-rights-using-g-suite-education/ https://eduk8.me/2017/12/how-creativity-works/ https://eduk8.me/2017/12/lower-productivity-innovation-due-security/
Amazon, Netflix, and Coca-Cola learn from failure, here’s how they do it
Why, all of a sudden, are so many successful business leaders urging their companies and colleagues to make more mistakes and embrace more failures? In May, right after he became CEO of Coca-Cola Co., James Quincey called upon rank-and-file managers to get beyond the fear of failure that had dogged the company since the “New…
Imitation is but one element of creativity
“And don’t ever imitate anybody,” Hemingway cautioned in his advice to aspiring writers. But in this particular sentiment, the otherwise insightful Nobel laureate seems to have been blind to his own admonition against the dangers of ego, for only the ego can blind an artist to the recognition that all creative work begins with imitation…
A new handheld device to help teach programming
Pip is the compact handheld device that puts the world of digital creation, curiosity & fun in your hands. Make fun games, invent your own apps, play some retro classics or take control of objects around you! Pip is here to introduce the world of coding, to make it fun & easy. Start with drag…