Minecraft on Chromebooks, a virtual biosphere, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/07/minecraft-is-coming-to-chromebooks/ https://eduk8.me/2020/07/have-fun-managing-your-own-biosphere-with-this-free-web-based-model/ https://eduk8.me/2020/07/comic-ama/
Your brain is not putting its best foot forward when reading text.
By analysing brain activity, researchers found that the brain regulates its resource use and tries to identify the most essential information.A recently completed study indicates that the human brain avoids taking unnecessary effort. When a person is reading, she strives to gain as much information as possible by dedicating as little of her cognitive capacity…
Google Calendar changes for showing short meetings
Source: G Suite Updates Blog: Better visualize shorter meetings in Google Calendar Nice usability feature for Google Calendar. Any meeting scheduled for less than 25 minutes will show the length in the calendar event.
Have fun managing your own biosphere with this free web based model
Source: Orb.Farm This is pretty cool. Orb.Farm lets you run your own biosphere, adding materials as you like to see their affect on your own little world. There is a lot here to use, especially if you are teaching science and biomes. The built in help describes everything that can go in to your biosphere…
Minecraft is coming to Chromebooks
Microsoft announced the Minecraft: Education Edition Chromebook Beta is now open for people to try! There are a few caveats with the beta: Minecraft is the Android version, so your Chromebook must support the Google Play store. You can’t use a managed account (I would assume this means a managed Chromebook too). You’ll need a…
Edit PDFs, annotate videos, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
https://eduk8.me/2020/07/edit-pdfs-or-convert-pdfs-to-word-with-sejda/ https://eduk8.me/2020/07/create-highlights-and-annotate-videos-with-tagx/ https://eduk8.me/2020/07/comic-hamilton-review/
Teaching a subject vs a skill
Some kids spend a decade in the school sports system and learn leadership and management and creativity and analysis. And some learn nothing but how to follow the coach’s instructions and sit on the bench. This has nothing to do with sports (or geography or biology) and everything to do with what we decide we’re…