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Wikitrivia is a fun history timeline game
Source: Wikitrivia Wikitrivia is a fun history timeline game. It starts with one card and shows you another card. You drag the card and place it where you think it goes in the time line. The time span can go back to 5000 B.C, so while it starts out pretty easy, it gets hard fast.
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To get better, do the things you’re bad at
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. We can always coast, do the things we’ve done a million times before, but does that offer any growth? We shouldn’t look at the term self-improvement as a negative. To some it implies…
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Search YouTube captions with the YouTube Captions Search extension
Source: YouTube Captions Search – Chrome Web Store Here’s a pretty cool extension to help your students locate information in YouTube videos. Once the extension is installed, you can search for specific words in videos that have closed captioning or subtitles. It is especially helpful when you are looking for a specific piece of information…
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Windows 11 SE laptops are becoming available to go up against Chromebooks
Source: Windows 11 SE laptops arrive to take on Chromebooks in schools – The Verge Competition is good, and right now Chromebooks could use a good competitor. Windows 11 SE laptops could be a good option for schools, but only if Microsoft makes them easy to manage. Chromebooks are great in the management department. Need to…
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Bookmark and add notes to YouTube videos with Bookmark It
Source: Bookmark It – Chrome Web Store Bookmark It is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to bookmark and comment on the bookmark in a YouTube video. The bookmarks and comments are not shareable, so the extension is useful in the classroom when a teacher wants to use a YouTube video in the…
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Chesterton’s Fence
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. In G. K. Chesterton.s 1929 book The Thing, he writes: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be…
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