This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Several successful people, such as Oprah Winfrey, William Buffet, and Bill Gates, follow the five hour rule. The five hour rule is setting aside an hour every work day for deliberate learning. How…
Most people have way too many meetings at work. This sucks. And it’s frustrating. Brain research now confirms what we have all experienced: back-to-back meetings are stupid. — Read on Brain Research Confirms Stupidity Of Back-to-Back Meetings There is a ton of research about how business works that can be used in a school setting,…
Source: Wall art generator – Rasterbator Rasterbator is a website that will take an image and blow it up to poster size on any printer or copier. The site will create a multi-page PDF, blowing up the original image as a kind of mosaic it. The multiple pages can then be printed out. But, it…
Learn how to engage and build your personal learning network with Twitter chats. What is a Twitter chat? Twitter chats use the concept of hashtags to group tweets together. You can also reply to questions directly on Twitter, and the site will keep your reply with the original Tweet. There are several education Twitter chats…
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Learn all about some of the most common file extensions you’ll come across as teachers, and how to open/use the files. Microsoft Office – .docx, .xlsx, .pptx Apple iWord – .pages, .keynote, .numbers Graphics – .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif Movies – .mov, .mp4, .mkv
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve was postulated in the late 19th century by the German Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. He tested his memory to see when he started to forget things he has learned. After he…
