The world feels more dangerous. Our streets seem less safe. The assault on our values is constant. The threats feel real. The enemy is out there — just check your feed. Source: This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit This would be a great article to discuss with students on…
Source: Greenshot Everyone has their favorite screenshot tool, and more pop up every day. Greenshot came up in my searches for a screenshot tool for Windows and it is currently my favorite screenshot tool. Greenshot only works on Windows and Mac, and is only free on Windows. If you want to run it on the Mac…
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As I dove deeper into UX design, I began to question my approach to classroom systems and course architecture. One of the key ideas in UX is to build systems that people will intuitively understand rather than trying to get people to fit into a system. Yet, in classrooms, I had spent hours teaching procedures….
Someone sent you a link. It looks okay… but is it really? Whether that person was a friend or a stranger, if it’s a link you weren’t expecting, you shouldn’t really click it. Email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter or some other social network or collaboration tool… whatever you’re using, there’s an opportunity for scammers and spammers…
Source: Piskel – Free online sprite editor I’ve talked about using Google Sheets for creating pixel art in the past but Piskel is a fantastic tool to push pixel art farther. Besides being able to create pixel creations, Piskel can also create animations!
When Mike Bloomberg, ex-mayor of New York, said he’d like to fire the lower-scoring half of the city’s teachers and give their students to the better-scoring half, doubling the size of their classes but paying them twice as much, he was affirming his belief in a particular theory of learning. For a short demonstration of…
During this year’s series of Love Island, contestant Chris Hughes revealed that he often wears his boxers three days in a row because he didn’t know how to use a washing machine. Most Brits take for granted the fact that they know how to work the washer, and may be horrified to hear that the 24 year-old…
Source: Send from Gmail (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Once installed, the Send from Gmail Chrome Extension lets you quickly send a link to the current page with Gmail. Simply click on the button in the toolbar and a new email window will pop up allowing you to customize the email message before sending. There…
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