The physic errors of Independence Day
For the 4th of July, I found a presentation from Mary Kate DiNorcia and Chris Simonetti on the physic errors in Independence Day. Enjoy!
Print YouTube, Google Cast for Ed, and Quizzes for Google Forms – Top 3 for the week
How to Print a YouTube Video – Storyboard Bookmarklet Yes, you read the title right, this bookmarklet allows you to print a Youtube video. Introducing Google Cast for Education Google Cast allows the teacher’s computer, that is attached to the projector, to act as a Chromecast device for the student’s Chromebooks in the classroom. Google…
You can be my wingman any time! Raspberry Pi AI waxes Air Force top gun’s tail in dogfights • The Register
Today’s generation of fighter pilots could be the last of their breed, thanks to an AI system dubbed ALPHA that’s proving unkillable in air combat. The US Air Force has just completed dogfighting trials in a simulator, pitching the software against retired Air Force Colonel Gene Lee. The AI – which ran on a $35…
Setting a time limit for a Google Form
Google doesn’t offer a way to set the time when a Google Form closes for responses, but that’s not going to stop those of us that teacher like a hacker! I was trying to think of ways that you could close a Google Form, and realized that one way to do it is to use…
How to Print a YouTube Video – Storyboard Bookmarklet
The other day I came across a web app that allowed users to print GIF animations as flipbooks. The site – gifprint.com – isn’t working anymore but the idea is nonetheless interesting. The app extracts all the image frames of the animated GIF, arranges the individual frames in sequence, like a contact sheet, and then…
CURMUDGUCATION: Teaching in a Post-Fact World
Stephen Colbert warned us when he coined the term “truthiness” for those things that feel satisfyingly true, but have no actual basis in fact. And now we are swimming in it. From a Washington Post piece about brexit: All of this has come about thanks to a world that is increasingly suspicious of experts. Please,…
Google Keep can now search automatically created topics
Google has now added a new feature to its note taking app Google Keep. Your notes will now automatically be categorized, such as books, food, quotes, etc. and will let you search by these automatic topics. Once I created a couple of notes with quotes in them I did a search for quote Google Keep, which…
The Surprising History of the Infographic | History | Smithsonian
We live in an age of data visualization. Go to any news website and you’ll see graphics charting support for the presidential candidates; open your iPhone and the Health app will generate personalized graphs showing how active you’ve been this week, month or year. Sites publish charts showing how the climate is changing, how schools are…
Project Bloks – Creating a development platform for tangible programming
Project Bloks is a research project. Our aim is to create an open hardware platform to help developers, designers, and researchers build the next generation of tangible programming experiences for kids. Source: Project Bloks – Creating a development platform for tangible programming Project Bloks reminds me a lot of littleBits, although the Bloks look more…
Google announces auto grading of quizzes in Google Forms
This week at ISTE Google announced Quizzes in Google Forms. It adds the ability to automatically grade quizzes in Google Forms, as long as the questions are multiple choice, checkboxes, or dropdown. The other types of questions are not supported. To create a Quiz in Google Forms, start a new form. Click on the gear…