This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Technology is a weird beast. There are people we expect to know a lot about it, and then there are people we expect to not know anything about it. The unspoken truth is…
Back in February I fell down the rabbit hole of digital planners. As I watched YouTube videos on the planners, I was struck by how labor intensive it was to create the stickers. Well, it was time to teach like a hacker and automate the process. After a couple of hours, I had a script…
Google Jamboard is not quite the replacement for Explain Everything or SMARTNotebook, but it is a contender. Jamboard allows better collaboration between you and your students, and is especially beneficial for schools with touchscreen Chromebooks. I mention how to create graphic organizers in Google Slides, here’s my video on how to do it.
Source: Fact Check Tools Google has a cool Fact Check Explorer, which allows you to enter a search term and it will show how that term is portrayed online and what facts are true. This would be a great starting point when investigating sources of information.
Ads are a necessary evil online, but sometimes they can be overbearing and affect the usability of a site. In this video I cover installing and using the uBlock Origin extension to block ads when browsing and in YouTube.
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This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. On the school/work front, I’m trying a new productivity technique. I’ve always had a To Do list, and I would mark things with @today for items that needed to be completed that day….
